Top 16 Inverted Commas Quotes
#1. The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently.
E. M. Forster
#2. I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a product of contemporary taste, driven by momentary appetites rather than eternal verities.
Stephen Bayley
#3. And finally, to call to mind the enormous influence which "German philosophy"
I hope you understand its right to inverted commas-
Friedrich Nietzsche
#4. We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.
Clifton Fadiman
#5. To those of us accustomed to newspaper headlines, 'PIZZAS' in inverted commas suggests these might be pizzas, but nobody's promising anything, and if they turn out to be cardboard with a bit of cheese on top, you can't say you weren't warned.
Lynne Truss
#6. I bring out the worst in you and you bring out the best in me.
Anna Todd
#7. I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#8. I'd been out of the movies for years, I had had a wonderful stage career, yes, in musicals and so on, but you don't really make any money in the theater.
Angela Lansbury
#9. It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
Viktor E. Frankl
#10. It would probably be softer, less muscular, like sexual yoga. It'd at least be novel.
Lauren Groff
#12. People usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You're new and you're hot and things go wrong.
Bill Murray
#14. If eternity touched you, if all the trappings of time and self were stripped away and you were all soul, if God "happened" to you - then isn't it possible that the experience could not be translated
Christian Wiman
#15. Master the craft. Write lots, even if you never intend to do anything with it. Don't delete old, unpublished, or partial manuscripts. There are lots of occasions where you may be able to use some of that work. If the writing is strong, save it for later.
Eric Matheny
#16. As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.
Charles Lindbergh
