To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
