Quotes About Quoting

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.

In case after case in the past, there is a kind of Bible-quoting intoxication under the influence of which we religious people lose the ability to distinguish between what God says and what we say God says.

Well, a lot of people don't want to be quoted. But keep in mind that Bob Woodward did all of his Watergate reporting with anonymous sources, and we know how that turned out.

That's the thing about Oxford. You go for a drink in a pub with some guy and next thing he's quoting Hamlet.

The legend says a man named Jesse Elliot was horse racing. He must have had a bet or something, 'cause he shouted to his horse, Take me in a winner or take me to hell! You said a bad word, Michael interrupted. It's OK when you're quoting someone else, silly, Brian argued.

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I can't tell you how aroused it makes me when you quote codes, lieutenant.

The young woman quoted Turgenev, If you want to annoy an opponent thoroughly or even harm him, you reproach him with every defect or vice you are conscious of in yourself.

Quoting Shakespeare doesn't make you an intellectual. It just makes you a fan of Shakespeare.

Lady Gaga is not saying anything new, she's just quoting something that's already been said, and staging it. It rarely seems sincere. That's why I always try to say something authentic.

She (History) too is a Bible, and if she cannot any more than the Bible hinder the fool from misunderstanding and the devil from quoting her, she too will be able to bear with, and to requite, them both.

People who quoted other people were showoffs, plain and simple.

My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,—it is a plaything.

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I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.

He wound up with a ringing declaration that he had stood over deeds which had caused excommunication, that he still stood over them, and appealed to people to stop quoting the dead. His objective was to achieve something which the dead, the living, and the children yet unborn would approve of

One of the interesting things about quoting in an artwork is that there is a repeated confusion about who is speaking - one essentially becomes the author of a quote one uses.

He who trains his tongue to quote the learned sages will be known, far and wide, as a smart-ass.

Nor must you find fault with me if I often give you what I have borrowed from my various reading, in the very words of the authors themselves.

suddenly both parties have become theologians, the one side quoting the Pentateuch to justify slavery, the other side quoting the gospel to condemn it:... the people of the thirty-three United States, who are eminently and essentially political, cannot discuss a political matter without quoting the old and New Testa- ments!"97

In Pythons 3.3 and 2.7, you can get help for a module you have not imported by quoting the module's name as a string — for example, help('re'), help('email.message') — but support for this and other modes may differ across Python versions.

He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen

Negative capability…quoting Keats: "Discard your memory," he implored. "Discard the future tense of your desire; forget…both what you knew and what you want, to leave space for a new idea.

Those who are quoting Justin Bieber are ruining this site.