Do You Always Need Commas Before Quotes

#1. Carry on, my sisters.

Sue Monk Kidd

#2. The first time I saw America was from my perch on the mast of a Spanish naval ship, where I could spot the Statue of Liberty reaching proudly into the open, endless American sky.

Jose Andres

#3. HARV, can you help at all here?" I asked, spinning downward.
"I am writing your obituary. Well, not so much writing it as updating it," HARV told me.
If I lived, I was going to kill HARV.

John Zakour

#4. We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

Raul Julia

#5. The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.

Clarence Darrow

#6. We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

Arthur Rubinstein

#7. The way to reform has always led through prison.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#8. There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. All seasons are spectacular.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Meet Logan Jackson, smug, self-entitled, proud, arrogant, trust-fund brat.

Ali Harper

#11. As an extension of Christ in the lives of his children is the only trend enough for a woman's precious energies.

Elaine A. Cannon

#12. My apologies. To kiss you now was inappropriate. But gladly, I would kiss you again.

Ashlan Thomas

#13. And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

George Eliot

#14. But knowing what I don't want to do doesn't help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don't have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That's my problem now. I can't find the image.

Haruki Murakami