Quotes About Quotation

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

Misquoting drives me bananas.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

An apt quotation is as good as an original remark.

Well thank you, Trudi," Now falsely modest again. "But I Don't think I won the scene." "Well, of course, you did," dismissing his protest. "You had all the dialogue but," she warns him. "In our big scene tomorrow, that's another story. So watch out.

We have a queen-size bed, and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

People go out to look at sunrises and sunsets who do not recognize their own, quietly and happily, but know that it is foreign to them. As they do by books, so they quote the sunset and the star, and do not make them theirs. Worse yet, they live as foreigners in a world of truth, and quote thoughts, and thus disown them. Quotation confesses inferiority

We do not believe our own thought; we must serve somebody; we must quote somebody; we dote on the old and the distant; we are tickled by great names; we import the religion of other nations; we quote their opinions; we cite their laws.

40 minutes in a city is nothing. But 40 minutes along a rural highway seems like an eternity. So we're driving along, and I ask my friend if we're there yet, and he says no, so I say, "Jesus. By the time we get there, the kid won't even be dead anymore." There is this pause in the car, and one of the other actors says, "Dude. Did you just quote your own movie?" I answered in the affirmative, and he says, "That was very cool.

What does an educated owl say?" He shrugged. "Whom," she said.

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence.

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.

A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.

The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism.

Wilde: I wish I'd said that.Whistler: You will, Oscar, you will.

Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will.

George Sanders's had been the best, an Old Hollywood classic, my father had known it by heart and liked to quote from it. Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored.

I always have a quotation for everything--it saves original thinking.

Ain't she the snail's ankles?' asked Mr da Soto admiringly.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem.

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.