Quotes About Being Quoted

#1. But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.

Linford Christie

#2. The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.

Larry Wall

#3. Every time I learn the truth about something, I'm disappointed

Chuck Klosterman

#4. A typical CR2032 will have a quoted energy capacity of 230mAh at 3 volts. Just to put this into context, this is about the amount of energy required to power a human being for just over 20 seconds.

Robin Heydon

#5. If you quote a poem in a sermon today, some people think you are being mushy, but if you quoted one back in the day, people would have felt you were getting to the core of an idea, to the real, whole truth of it.

Donald Miller

#6. My whole philosophy is about doing, not talking.

Theresa May

#7. I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.
(As quoted in Put Your Big Girl Panties on and Deal with it, Roz Van Meter, 2007)

Susan Sarandon

#8. Marriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party.

Amy Dickinson

#9. My idea of socialism is no state monopoly. There should be stress on the subjectivity of the human being. You need good material conditions, a high level of culture, much freedom and friendship. And it won't come today or tomorrow. It's a long and winding road

Marek Edelman

#10. The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost. The Bible was quoted to keep women silent, and the Bible lost. And the Bible is being quoted to deny homosexuals their equal rights, and the Bible will lose.

John Shelby Spong

#11. Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet.
Sarah L. (Sadie) Delany

Amy Hill Hearth

#12. Loneliness feels like such a shameful experience, so counter to the lives we are supposed to lead, that it becomes increasingly inadmissible, a taboo state whose confession seems destined to cause others to turn and flee.

Olivia Laing

#13. The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

Robert Fisk

#14. I don't even like being quoted in a press release.

Marco Arment

#15. The question, therefore, is not whether one should teach philosophy to Muslim students, but rather what kind or kinds of philosophy should be taught and how the subject should be approached.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#16. I know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly.

Lee Marvin

#17. Love is the strongest soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.

Stanley Kubrick

#19. In my dream, all of the collapsed ceilings reformed above us. The fire went back into the bombs, which rose up and into the bellies of planes whose propellers turned backward, like the second hands of the clocks across Dresden, only faster.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#20. Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.

Dallas Willard

#21. I don't want to be quoted as 'Tom Hiddleston, psychologist says ... ' But there is a psychological aspect to being an actor. We are particular students of human nature - not every actor is, of course, but that's what fascinates me about being an actor.

Tom Hiddleston

#22. If only life were a book, and I could choose precisely what part I played.

Jessica Lawson

#23. Admittedly, I dressed up for the occasion again - I never said I wasn't fucked up.

Nina G. Jones

#24. Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

Terry Gilliam

#25. I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.

Joan Didion

#26. In all you do ... always do your best and be a winner!

Timothy Pina