Quotes About Excerpts

Your [patriarchal] blessing is a prophetic synopsis with excerpts of the blessing you received at Heavenly Father's hand as you prepared to come to earth.

From excerpts I'd read in Philosophy 101 at Randolph-Macon, Marx was dead on, I thought, about the idiocy of rural life. I knew better than to quote Marx. I tuned out everyone on the home front.

When religious arguments based on the perspective of a single century or culture reach a high pitch, or when people who seem to have read only excerpts of the Bible use it to propose legislation, I return to the Book - not to find a solution, but to remember how many possibilities there are.

Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, and in there, down there, I started to pick the words up. They were excerpts of truth gathered from inside me.

Give me that dark moment; I will carry it everywhere like a mouthful of rain. — Mary Oliver, from "Pen and Paper and a Breath of Air: Excerpts," Blue Pastures . (Mariner Books; 1 edition November 10, 1995)

Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations.

If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.

Teaching Ramanujan was like writing on a blackboard covered with excerpts from a more interesting lecture.

It's half the battle to get a line on the adored object's favourite literature. Mug it up and decant an excerpt and she's all over you. Next moment Freddie was hareing off for a Collected Works of Tennyson. Relieved, because, girls being ehat they are, it might easily have been Shelley or even Browning.

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