We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.

An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.

Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.

A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.

The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them.

I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"?

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.

Oh, readers. If only you knew what we've gone through for you.

Tequila! Would you not think fallen angels would be immune to it." "Fallen, hate that word! I prefer..misplaced

Whoever invented the word 'grace' must have seen the wing-folding of the plover.

Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction.

Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people.

Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.

It's almost an addiction that some people have to what I call the perfection that Hollywood presents of successful, beautiful, fun-loving people.

No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.

If you were the sky, I would unfurl myself in you, as a rainbow of colors yet unseen. I would become oceans of stars in your night.

I’d rather eat out of a can than be strangled by a faction.