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Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation. Janet Malcolm

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!

Anna Garlin Spencer

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Samuel Johnson

We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.

Rachael Ray

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Isaac D'Israeli

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.

Michael Steele

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.

Nigel Rees

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

Janet Malcolm

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Brendan Behan

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

James Baldwin

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

Arthur Miller

I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

E. L. Doctorow

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Joseph Roux

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.

Bill F. Walsh

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

Charles Edward Montague

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

Evelyn Waugh

I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.

Andrew Marr

Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do the Constitution: as a Chinese menu designed to allow picking and choosing. That's because when many Democrats take the Bible as a whole, they realize how much they despise it.

Ben Shapiro

I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.

Peter James