Quoting Quotes

Quoting Quote of the day

One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

Monty Python is like catnip for nerds. Once you get them started quoting it, they are constitutionally incapable of feeling depressed.

Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise.

Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons!

It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.

When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

With the risk of being accused of quoting the wrong person I can say that [Adolf] Hitler wrote that "the more the press attacks a person the closer he is to us".

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people.

quoting reminds me there are other people in the world besides only me. And other thoughts besides mine, and other ways of thinking.

You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging.

I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.

Head's all empty, I don't care,' he'd sing to me, quoting the Grateful Dead, and I'd force a smile, thinking that my head was never empty and that if it ever was, you could be darn sure I'd care.

Jesus died as He had lived-praying, forgiving, loving, sacrificing, trusting, quoting Scripture. If I die as I have lived, how will I die?

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.

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.

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.

I am a musicologist, a doctor of music. Therefore I listened to, studied and analysed a lot of music. I also enjoy metaphors, the art of quoting and of cycles.

The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.

There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003

Brush up your Shakespeare, Start quoting him now, Brush up your Shakespeare And the women you will wow.

Well, I'm just quoting you when you [Donald Trump] were asked about a potential nuclear competition in Asia, you said, you know, go ahead, enjoy yourselves, folks.

Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

If you're bumming out, you're not gonna get to the top, so as long as we're up here we might as well make a point of grooving. (Quoting Scott Fischer)

Nothing like quoting Silence of the Lambs for people to question what kind of disability you have.

Oftentimes, what seems to be a street lunatic charging at me spouting gibberish turns out to be a devoted 'Simpsons' fan quoting their favorite line.

I used to be an angry man myself. I’m a recovering assaholic so I could recognize that in Steve. (quoting Jean-Louis Gassée)

Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

Winston, I don't know what I want, but I want you to go out and get it. When I see it, I'll know if it's what I thought I wanted. (Quoting a photography client.)

I'm getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan.

I'm kind of quoting Thurston [Moore] and Kim [Gordon] in saying that about not being great with addicts, because they are the ones who said it to me.

It's just, people recognize you for your work, you know? They love you for your work, and they judge you for your work. It's awesome to have people quoting you. I love it.

A little extra forgiveness never hurts," said Matt, quoting one of Celia's favorite sayings.

Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing the person said.

The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.

Quoting Scripture leads you to the fountain, but only if you plunge in and come up wet will I know that you are a Christian.

...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.

Every time [Rand Paul] opens his mouth, it gets a little crazier. Today he angrily demanded that the liberal media stop quoting him in context.

Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.

The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)

I'm quoting Margaret Thatcher. I quote her frequently.

Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.