Quotes About Quotes

If someone appears on television and makes a comment, and we quote that comment, we are being accurate. But are we actually being sensible if we don't know if that comment is based on any facts whatsoever? It is something that journalists have to be much more aware of.

It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn't have to bone up on any of it.

I don't know why we said half the stuff that we did to journalists. It was almost as if we didn't think they were going to print it.

Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.

Most of my saucy comments are from gay guys. Some of them are pretty explicit in the things they say, especially on Twitter.

I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.

I never said most of the things attributed to me. Always check with the Quote Investigator website before posting, like I did when I was alive.

I love to read profiles about people, but I'm interested in their processes. I only ever do them for newspapers that I love.

Politicians can be cheered for the promises they make. Our country will be judged by the promises we keep.

I had proposals from England, but I believe they would have had to adapt to my style.

My dad is a man that, for as long as I can remember, has kept a book of favorite things his kids say.

President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.

Rockefeller didn't issue such glowing testimonials lightly.

I write narrative nonfiction, creating lively scenes through action and the use of quotes from firsthand accounts, all based on rigorous research. If I say a character leaned against a fence on a windy day, than I have at least two sources to back up these details.

I am always impressed by interviewers who can do the whole thing without notes. I can't. I need reminders on my knee. Dates, first names, quotes in bold text.

Quotes are empty and meaningless. It is how they are used that gives them purpose, how the person repeating those words gives them meaning. Good quotes do not offer the author immortality. Instead, they give the author limitless rebirths on the tongues of the masses.

When people search for "Life Quotes" they are often looking for quotes about life. Why do the major search engines only give them hundreds of pages of commercial garbage about Life Insurance Quotes?

A good quote is far better than the best-selling books.

A hypocrite might also say/share nice quotes & things right, but puts own photo tight with that online post/thought to keep only own face, not words, in spotlight for praise & enjoy limelight.

Better to write just thoughts which have got wisdom a lot than a whole book that is not even worth referring for its quotes by a sensible reader and yet be regarded as a published author or celebrity.

Thoughts or quotes are there to sensitize people for humanity and not to sensationalize issues for publicity.

'Mean Girls' is literally one of my favorite movies. It's just such a classic. Everybody has seen it, and me and my friends quote it all the time.

I don't talk, I quote. I can't help it. It's better to be quotable than honest.

I like John McCain. He can always be counted on for a good quote.