Quotes About Quotes

My mind is stuffed with quotes. Lines, couplets, paragraphs, stanzas; Bessie Smith, Stevie Smith, Tin Pan Alley, rock and roll. They tease or lead or hurl me into a dream space of jostling languages that I need to bask in each day in order to write.

Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome.

'USA Today' once did a big article called, 'Who said it? Was it Norm or George Bush?' They had quotes of mine and quotes of his, and they went to some congressmen and senators and said, 'Who said it?' It was hysterical.

There's very little solid research on readership, yet people make pronouncements about it all the time.

People recite lines to me all the time, anywhere I get recognized.

He assumed a manner that could be called circular irony. Everything he said, he said in quotes, with an artificial, exaggerated emphasis, and with the elocution of someone playing a succession of improvised, ad hoc roles. Therefore, whoever did not know him long and well was confounded, for it seemed impossible ever to tell what the man thought true and what false, and when he was speaking seriously and when he was merely amusing himself with words.

Just being a writer allows one the maturity to have random conversations with random strangers!

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script.

The disparity between the idealism of 1914 and the reality of war was so great that combatants and noncombatants alike had to find myths that would give meaning to the meaningless.

The president has substantial unilateral authority in trade, so political opposition may not prevent him from carrying through on some of his promises.

Football is about opinions, but love me or hate me, I don't really care. I genuinely wouldn't change anything. I don't have any regrets.

As a journalist, your words are regularly read by lots of people, but they're not your words: they're someone else's. You're quoting people.

Johnny Blaze was my character at OVW. I had all these fancy fire catchphrases: 'Call the fire department,' 'Get your fire extinguishers out, ladies.' 'By the time you hear the thunder, it's going to be too late because the lightning will have already struck.' That was all my thing.

to shelve this book. But before you do that, hear me out. If you promise to read this book, I'll promise to make it an adventure. In fact, to keep it fun, I've stuffed it full of cartoons, clever ideas, great quotes, and incredible stories about real teens from all over the world … along with a few other surprises.

Y'all reporters like my quotes, don't you. Yeah, my quotes are Shaqalicious.

One of my favorite comedies is Three Amigos! Oh my gosh, me and my brother quote that all the time.

We make many assumptions about nature—about the environment—and these have consequences. Mark Twain once said, "It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

People keep saying, 'Oh, you're getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy.' I guess it does, but mostly it's just a relief.

You do remember things that people say in movies. You remember particular lines and things that are funny. But, you also remember really strong images. Images have a way of bypassing your brain and hitting you emotionally.

threw in quotes he attributed to Derrida and Heidegger for good measure, which he always does when he can't handle a tricky situation

I love doing funny promos like the ones I did wrestling Rey Mysterio.

I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.

what Graham called "quotational" values