Book Quotations Quotes

#1. Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost.

Willis Regier

#2. Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer Shapiro.' ... Shapiro does original research, earning his 1,067-page volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's.

William Safire

#4. Max would rather say nothing to everyone than something to one person

Matthew Dicks

#5. In my book an erection constitutes personal growth.

Amunhotep El Bey

#6. This abattement and degradation did not take place all at once; it was brought about by degrees

William Makepeace Thackeray

#7. Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

Colum McCann

#8. 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.

Gary Saul Morson

#9. Give a man a beer, the remote and a La-Z-Boy and he's a happy camper! All Things Caveman humor cartoon book will help you understand that hairy guy beside you.

Laurie Foxx

#10. Those were my last words. To be listed in some book of quotations, alphabetically after Wilde:
Wilde, Oscar (of the wallpaper in his bedroom): "Either it goes, or I do."
Wilding, Adelyn (of the gum splooches on the sidewalk): "Ditto."

Roberta Pearce

#11. Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

Bill Simmons

#12. She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy.

Ann Brashares

#13. When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.

Clive Thompson

#14. I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon.

Ezra Taft Benson

#15. It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book.

Vicesimus Knox

#16. I almost trust her to burn the bridges while standing at the cliff herself. She hardly agrees to be on the same page as others, either ahead of all or all in a different book.

Parul Wadhwa

#17. The life of the body is the soul; the life of the soul is God.

Anthony Of Padua

#18. Three years to make a book, five lines to ridicule it, and the quotations wrong.

Albert Camus

#19. Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

P.D. James

#20. A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

Thomas Love Peacock

#21. I'm writing a book on Procrastination. I hope to start it tomorrow. I've been thinking about it for almost six years now.

Ron Moore

#22. It is too bad that most Olympians do not train as hard as the Lashkar jihadis whose main aim in life is to kill people.

Vivek Pereira

#23. For some Church members the Book of Mormon remains unread. Others use it occasionally as if it were merely a handy book of quotations. Still others accept and read it but do not really explore and ponder it. The book is to be feasted upon, not nibbled (see 2 Nephi 31:20).

Neal A. Maxwell

#24. Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#25. Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#26. I'm writing a new book called 'Ventroliquism for Dummies'.

Ron Moore

#27. Happiness isn't getting all that you want. It's enjoying all that you have.

Rick Warren

#28. A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.

Jonathan Swift

#29. The text message she'd received last night from the unknown number left her sick inside. It had been curt and to the point: Stay away from my husband. The terse message came with a photo of Gabe with a pretty brunette.

Lena Hart

#30. 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.

Thomas Love Peacock

#31. I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.

Jerry Seinfeld

#32. Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource.

Stephanie S. Tolan

#33. Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history.

Marjorie Garber