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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
Thoughts
People
Other
Else
Someone
Most
Opinions
Passions
Quotation
Lives
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
Man
Book
Every
Ancestors
Mines
Out
House
His
Forests
Stone
Quotation
Every Man
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
Bible
Constitution
Despise
Way
Favorite
Menu
Take
Selective
Allow
Picking
Because
Democrats
How
How Much
Same
Quotation
Chinese
Realize
Much
Choosing
Who
Many
Whole
Interpret
Designed
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Thinking
Saves
Everything
Always
Quotation
Original
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man
Every
Ancestors
His
Quotation
Every Man
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce
Words
Another
Repeating
Quotation
Act
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Brendan Behan
Book
Like
Infantryman
Article
Authority
Hands
Quotation
Speaks
Rifle
Speech
Vladimir Putin was awarded an advanced degree by the St. Petersburg Mining Institute with the help of a dissertation that, as two Brookings researchers discovered, included sixteen stolen pages - and, remarkably, not a single set of quotation marks.
Evan Osnos
Degree
Single
Dissertation
Marks
Mining
Remarkably
Advanced
Putin
Institute
Discovered
Stolen
Sixteen
Quotation
Pages
Help
Researchers
Included
Awarded
Two
Set
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges
Life
Itself
Quotation
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.
Mark Twain
Good
Confidence
Invented
Deceive
Any
Quotation
Good Chance
Stands
Belief
Nearly
Played
Chance
Hipster Sexism consists of the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox: the stuff you learned about in literature class. As funny as Dunham's 'Girls' is, it can definitely border on Hipster Sexism.
Alissa Quart
Funny
You
Class
Women
Girl
Marks
Consists
Definitely
Paradox
Border
Sexism
Objectification
About
Stuff
Learned
Mockery
Quotation
Literature
Manner
Uses
I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.
Andrew Marr
Great
Great Believer
Marks
Direct
Fact
Quotation
Quote
Hard
Believer
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!
Anna Garlin Spencer
Man
Woman
Old
Marks
He
Put
Brain
Error
Forget
Where
Quotation
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
You
Looking
On-Screen
Marks
Recognized
Out
Tend
House
Were
Camera
Blotted
Screen
Quotation
Theater
While
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
Long
Think
Gave
Marks
Detest
Like
Were
Commas
Up
Quotation
Story
Them
Page
Found
Belong
Need
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
Janet Malcolm
Thought
Way
Characteristic
Journalistic
Sine
Himself
His
Subject
Quotation
Fidelity
Expressing
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
Man
Fool
Brainy
Diamond
Fine
Wit
Hand
Quotation
Pebble
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
Saying
Mind
Job
Wish
Lost
Own
Out
Find
Someone
Purpose
Involves
Came
Lingers
Up
Dictionaries
Trying
Conventional
Quotation
Quotations
Cannot
Which
Use
Who
Searching
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
Love
Hope
Book
Will
Give
Only
New
Read
Truly
Lot
Get
Quotation
Asked
Works
Puff
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
Dog
Corner
Sleeps
Marks
John
Sort
Bed
Middle
Quotation
Either
Little
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson
World
Men
Classical
Parole
Over
Literary
Quotation
Literary Men
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Isaac D'Israeli
Wisdom
Wise
Experience
Preserved
May
Quotation
Ages
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