One thing that drives me nuts. . . well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?
It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it.
Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks. ”'
Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.
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.
In the dime stores and bus stations People talk of situations Read books, repeat quotations Draw conclusions on the wall Some speak of the future My love she speaks softly She knows there’s no success like failure And that failure’s no success at all -Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero No Limit” (1965)
Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came out of temperament.
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried with him and in which he tirelessly entered in the form of quotations what daily living and reading netted him in the way of "pearls" and "coral. " On occasion he read from them aloud, showed them around like items from a choice and precious collection.
You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from.
To read quotations is to live in a planet with multiple suns!
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism
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.
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.
I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.
It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation.
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.
