Quotes About Quotes

The German journalists still ring me and ask me to come back because without me their newspapers are empty - but I'm happy for that.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

The decrees of society are temporary ones; what Tolstoy is interested in are the eternal demands of morality.

She was the curator of her marriage, collector of swift quotes and unremarked-upon sensations.

Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

The problem with Internet quotes is that you cannot always depend on their accuracy.

Always be wary of people who use quotes. I don't know who said that.' - Murdoc Niccals

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

That's three quotes? Add another quote and make it a gallon.

THE TIMING OF Lincoln's public letters turned out to be fortuitous

Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.

Can't you imagine? Haven't you told her about the place enough?" He tried the handle again, as if that could change anything. Meggie had covered the whole door with quotations. They looked to him now like magic spells written on the white paint in childish hand. Take me to another world! Go on! I know you can do it. My father has shown me how. Odd that your heart didn't simply stop when it hurt so much.

When people say 'I quote' and pause, they come across as scary-level intellectuals. Let's face it, nobody wants to mess with the 'I quote' types.

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

He lik'd those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books; And ruin half an author's graces, By plucking bon-mots from their places...

I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

Poor Charlie's Almanac: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger (Charles T. Munger),

I also keep a handful of blank pages in my morning journal to build a quote section over the course of the journal (pulling quotes from reading, podcasts, etc.). That way, I can easily refer back to it and flip through when looking for some insight.

Maxims and Reflections by Goethe:

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

Wide acceptance of a quote is not the proof of its validity

I'm very happy for you guys. I heard my voice, so false it was all the statues could do to keep themselves from rolling their eyes.

I'm going to open a new Facebook account named 'Anonymous' so all the cool quotes will be attributed to me!

We didn't write it at the time. We took notes, as journalists did in those days, by committing quotes to memory, then making our excuses and heading for the bathroom, where we'd scribble into our notebooks before the booze set in.