You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary.
Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.
Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.
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.
Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.
With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.
Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our Bartlett's.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
In my town we studied the five Books of Moses, but rarely the prophets. We studied the Talmud so much that I sometimes knew the prophets because of the prophetic quotations in the Talmud. We almost never studied the prophets themselves.
Quotation confesses inferiority.
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.
The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.
In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
The investor with a portfolio of sound stocks should expect their prices to fluctuate and should neither be concerned by sizable declines nor become excited by sizable advances. He should always remember that market quotations are there for his convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.
There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.
No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.
