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Quotes About Quotes

I'm a sucker for quotes and cheesy rom-coms. I have quotes all around my house, and I'm always in the mood for a rom-com. Always.
~ Olivia Holt
Goodreads could be a source for knowledge but instead does all readers a supreme disservice by allowing the spread of false quotes on the Internet.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art that samples other art, quotes that quote other quotes--your writer knows this phenomenon, in jargon 'he's aware', he was raised in a culture of (not more ironic jargon, select only the most appropriate gustatory analogy): regurgitation, a culture of glutting to vomit and glutting again on the vomit until reemesis--chunky cheese mimesis--then licking that puddle again.
~ Joshua Cohen
This Why–What If–How progression—which can be identified in many stories of innovative breakthroughs—is
~ Warren Berger
It is noteworthy, however, that we did not feel we needed information about other teams to make our guesses.
~ Daniel Kahneman
This book is chock full of facts, figures, quotes, poll numbers, laws, and economic data but, to keep the subject matter accessible, it was necessary to streamline the work by omitting additional supporting evidence.
~ Daniel Miller
I agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet.
~ James Earl Jones
Phil is always a quotable guy. He keeps everyone entertained.
~ Jeanie Buss
Websites that collect quotes are full of mistakes and never check original sources.
~ Randal Monroe
if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.
~ Randy Pausch
I quote my father to people almost every day. Part of that is because if you dispense your own wisdom, others often dismiss it; if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable. Of course, when you have someone like my dad in your back pocket, you can't help yourself. You quote him every chance you get.
~ Randy Pausch
Celebrities say the darnedest things.
~ Bridgette Wilson
One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.
~ Douglas Brinkley
Religion enjoys astonishing privileges in our societies, privileges denied to almost any other special interest group one can think of-and certainly denied to individuals
~ Richard Dawkins
Among the dozens of hostile articles that have thus far appeared, none has successfully refuted any of its science.
~ Richard J. Herrnstein
Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
As my mind changes, so do my quotes. I empathize with those who, by force, are put on trial for their own clarity of conscience. For that, we must convene by force of argument.
~ Michael Brett Turner
I received so many positive comments about the quotes that I decided to continue to use them in my novels.
~ Julie Klassen
My dad is too cute. Every morning, he sends me one motivational quote. I have a folder full of all his quotes.
~ Alia Bhatt
Namely, that for every once that Dawkins says that genes are not purposive, he says a hundred things (many of which I have quoted) which imply that genes are purposive. And
~ David C. Stove
I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments
~ Albert Einstein
The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.
~ Shannon L. Alder
When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
~ Michel de Montaigne