Top 100 Quotes About Quotations
#1. Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.
Margaret Drabble
#2. Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern the countries; at least they will steal only the bananas!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#3. Footnoting references, signalling quotations, and so on were no part of a 13th-century scholar's duty. He could recycle his own and his predecessor's work without a qualm. He knew nothing of copyright and plagiarism, which are 17th-century inventions.
Fergus Kerr
#5. Countries who don't have brave prosecutors and fearless judges will instead have plenty of thieves, many killers and even stupid dictators!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#6. Leaning forward in the chair, Harley squeezed out a controlled fart, so no one could hear it. This damn reception area was like a echo chamber. If he weren't careful, it could reverberate around the hall like a shotgun blast.
Alan Kinross
#7. Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#8. If a media is not criticizing the government, then that media is not a media but just a clown of the government!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. What is the name of your dream? A lovely wooden cottage in the middle of a forest? Or walking in an endless autumn path? What is the name of your dream? Don't give a name, always give a list! Fill yourself with dreams because dream is the path to reality!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#10. Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.
Mason Cooley
#11. I surround myself with inspirational quotations. This easy-to-follow piece of advice has played a huge role in my being able to get past my own fears and insecurities throughout my entrepreneurial career.
Blake Mycoskie
#12. I met Rob in Austin, Texas. He was hitchhiking to California and I was driving to California, so it seemed like a perfect match. He had long blond hair and blue eyes and golden skin and so did I. It was like falling in love with myself.
Lorena Cassady
#13. Right thinking is your best light in this dark universe; it is your best hope in your worst hopelessness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#14. Ah, the violence: tearing, killing, ripping. Lila, between fascination and horror, spoke to me in a mixture of dialect, Italian, and very educated quotations that she had taken from who knows where and remembered by heart. The entire planet, she said, is a big Fosso Carbonario.
Elena Ferrante
#15. They only want to weep
As after the huge wars
Senseless huge wars
Huge senseless weeping.
Ted Hughes
#16. When you speak universally, it means that you speak from the Moon, you speak from the Sun, from the stars; you speak by being in every corner of the universe!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#17. With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about patronage, Patronizing the Arts will appeal to a broad audience.
Jonathan Culler
#18. To see the universe clearly, you need not only a clear sky but also a clear mind!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#20. Lewis had developed a trademark style, slow enough for note taking, loud enough to rouse the dullest listener, straightforward, abundantly furnished with quotations, and lavish in wit.
Philip Zaleski
#21. Ryan, when did you get a girlfriend?" his sister asked.
"She's not my girlfriend, Kaylen," Ryan replied. "Go away.
S. Walden
#22. During the settling of the American colonies, it was said that the Spaniards would first build a church, the Dutch would first build a fort and the English a tavern. Welcome to Charleston, an English colony founded in 1670.
Mark R. Jones
#24. Do you want a good advice on your path? Here it is: Don't be sure of your path! Don't ever be sure of it! Do you want more advice? Here it is: Doubt your path! And examine the other paths, know the other paths!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#26. Religion is the Self revealing secrets of the Self to the Self.
Abhijit Naskar
#27. Reality is not enough for us, that's why we have invented art to create different realities!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#28. Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.
Ihab Hassan
#29. You cannot tell a river in which direction it should flow, but you can steer your boat.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#30. Every believer is also a nonbeliever because he does not believe in the things nonbelievers believe in; every nonbeliever is also a believer because he believes in the things believers do not believe in!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#32. They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies ... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.
Aaron Koblin
#33. A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#34. Neither humans nor the Gods that they have created are superior to old Mother Nature.
Abhijit Naskar
#35. A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#36. Blast ignorant people with high-powered streams of information and wisdom, but only when fire hoses are not readily available.
Cassandra Duffy
#37. How'd you like to sleep between dragons?
L.R.W. Lee
#38. You can lose your past by forgetting it but you can never lose your future because you can lose only the things you already own!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#39. You know what my favourite quotation is? ... It's from Chaucer ... Criseyde says it, I am myne owene woman, wel at ese.
Mary McCarthy
#40. I can't tell you how it came to take me so many years to learn that instead of placing piking bets on what the next few quotations were going to be, my game was to anticipate what was going to happen in a big way.
Anonymous
#41. A seagull flying beautifully is heaven; a seagull hunting an innocent fish is hell! Existence is heaven and hell, joy and horror!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#42. It's easy to get caught up in where the world is going and lose sight of the direction we were headed.
Terry A. O'Neal
#43. The greatest fools in the universe are men who think they are smarter than women.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#44. For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. If our life is a dream, let it continue; who wants the reality? If our life is a reality, let it continue; who wants the dream? Unknown is unreliable!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#46. Three years to make a book, five lines to ridicule it, and the quotations wrong.
Albert Camus
#47. The prisoners of the cultures are mostly the women! House is the name of the prison!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#48. 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
#49. Chomsky is a pencil-and-paper theoretician who wouldn't know Jabba the Hutt from the Cookie Monster,
Steven Pinker
#50. You are a nobody till you stop doing the same stupid things everybody else is doing!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#51. You can't see the world from your window and likewise the world cannot see you as well! Go out, come nearer to the world!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#52. A mind that tastes the grief obtains a good chance to travel to the Land of Wisdom!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. If you fall in love with a character, then you are actually falling in love with the author that wrote the character. Therefore, you could conclude that if you are said author, you are in love with yourself.
Heather Dowell
#55. Smile is your make up,angelic face
You light up the entire place
Patrick Cruz
#56. In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#58. There are two paths that you must never leave in your life: The path of peace and the path of reason!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#59. The best thing is to walk on the right path without looking back, without knowing who is following you because you must walk with your own speed, with your own freedom! Your followers will catch you or your ideas somehow somewhere ahead, somewhere in time!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#60. People who like quotations love meaningless generalisations.
Graham Greene
#61. 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
#62. If the weather is sunny, it is good; if the weather is rainy, it is good; if it is foggy, it is good; if it is stormy, it is good; if it is damn cold, it is good; if it is damn hot, it is good! With a positive attitude of mind, all becomes good!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#63. Love I never associated with the senses, it was not even passion that I wanted; it was a conscious, subtle, elaborate sensuality, which I knew not how to procure.
Arthur Symons
#64. Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.
Terry Pratchett
#65. Being alive is being a part of a dream and there is no dream outside the life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#66. Love + truth = strength
Love + knowledge = influence
Love + understanding = power
Love + wisdom = enlightenment
Matshona Dhliwayo
#67. There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature.
Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
#68. Occasionally a moderately intelligent thought misses a turn and accidentally enters my mind
Barry Hughart
#69. When a powerful storm collides with a much more powerful storm, it will understand that his power was just a dust before the wind! You can be a giant only until a bigger giant comes and erases your existence!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#70. Don't believe a man will give you the world if he doesn't even buy you flowers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#71. Cats speak the language of comfort and coolness and therefore we feel comfortable and cool whenever we see a cat!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#72. Oh, drat the men! No matter what they do, it's the wrong thing. And no matter who they are, it's somebody they shouldn't be. They do exasperate me.
Anne's House of Dreams
L.M. Montgomery
#73. Minds of people need a good revolution and great quotations are good revolutionists!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#74. I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.
Jerry Seinfeld
#75. In a couple of days after our arrival, it already became clear that our things were lost forever and would never be found. They put in the paperwork that Emirates Airlines had lost it, although we knew for sure it was all stolen by those girls in the airport of our first departure.
Sahara Sanders
#76. Do you believe your gentle birth will turn a bullet?"
"Why, yes," Rhett said solemnly. "Hell yes! Gentle birth's got to be good for something!
Donald McCaig
#77. Poor man! You have many burdens on you: The burdens of your religion, of your culture, of your ignorance, of your oppressive government! Find a wild horse and watch it! You will see what is to be unburdened and free!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#78. You only need four words to spell the greatest word in the universe: L.O.V.E.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#79. Don't nag me about quotes. By which I suppose you mean quotations. I'll add them when I'm ready.
PK
#81. Only the honorable people resist the injustices! The rest - the honorless - are afraid of even their own shadows!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#82. I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.
Winston Churchill
#83. No matter what life throws at you, fight with your eyes wide open to fight a good fight.
Valencia Mackie
#85. 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
#86. You do know that I don't have plans to separate you from your socks as you sleep?
Rose Gordon
#87. Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#88. I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.
Anais Nin
#89. The best part of being a little child is having a long blank page ahead that he can fill it with almost everything!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#90. Speaking one's mind once is more honorable than quoting a thousand men.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#91. If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#93. You may give up your big dream and that is very hard! If necessary, give it up but then create a new one! Never live without big dreams because they will keep you alive in life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#94. Don't eat earwax avoid roasted cabbage and look on the bright side of life -Angela
Christopher Paolini
#97. But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in the vicissitudes of their eventful lives.
Jane Austen
#99. Simple things relieve eyes; simple things ease mind, simple things create meditation, simple things are simply miraculous!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#100. When you do something, you miss something else! If you don't want to miss anything, you have to do everything!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
