Top 100 Quotes About Quoted
#1. I don't know if my agent will be upset but I quoted him saying that he would jump out a window if I turn down another project.
Erika Christensen
#2. A release on September 16 quoted the claim of the assistant secretary for labor at OSHA that tests show 'it is safe for New Yorkers to go back to work in New York's financial district.' (OSHA's responsibility extends only to indoor air quality for workers, however.)
National Commission On Terrorist Attacks Upon The United States
#3. What to do when the market goes down? Read the opinions of the investment gurus who are quoted in the WSJ. And, as you read, laugh. We all know that the pundits can't predict short-term market movements. Yet there they are, desperately trying to sound intelligent when they really haven't got a clue.
Jonathan Clements
#5. 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
#6. Han will have that shield down,' " Aech quoted. " 'We've got to give him more time!'
Ernest Cline
#7. I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers. It makes me wonder why I brought up the recovery story in the first place.
Mary Docter
#8. If I see Danny Hillis quoted as an expert on MPP one more time, I'm going to puke.
Larry Ellison
#9. We have quoted freely from the Scriptures and have sought to furnish proof-texts for every statement we have advanced.
Arthur W. Pink
#10. Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
(quoted in Life After Life)
William Congreve
#11. God - if the press ever quoted anyone correctly, it would be brilliant.
Lauren Bacall
#12. I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.
George Eliot
#13. I hate the bigotry you believe in. But I'll try not to hate you."
"Why?" he asked. His voice was cold, as she remembered it.
"Hate eats the hater," she quoted from a familiar text of the Telling.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#14. Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.
[Quoted by Theodore Sorensen in 'Kennedy']
John F. Kennedy
#15. There's a vast fraternity of record collectors, and the record store was their hub. There was not a lot of information on these groups or the labels so you'd gather [there] and it would be like a library. - Lenny Kaye quoted
Gary Calamar
#16. An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something.
lini is quoted by Nynaeve.
Robert Jordan
#17. If kisses were what you were looking for, little fool, why didn't you come to me?
quoted by Susannah Simon
Meg Cabot
#18. A lot of people feed their kids' tantrums with snacks and toys. Don't negotiate with terrorists.
Bethenny Frankel
#19. President Heber J. Grant often quoted the following statement, which is sometimes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do-not that the nature of the thing is changed, but that our power to do is increased.'
Heber J. Grant
#20. Somebody set up us the bomb,' pal," he quoted. "Now it's time to take off every zig for great justice.
Ernest Cline
#21. The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty ... it is a beastly hole after Liverpool; for Liverpool is the town of my heart and I would rather sail a mudflat there than command a clipper out of London
John Masefield
#22. When love is over, how little of love even the lover understands," quoted Clovis to himself.
Saki
#23. Evil is inevitable,' Reuben quoted, 'in the course of a creation which develops with time.
Rice Anne
#24. Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.
Pola Negri
#25. Pride goeth before destruction," he quoted, "and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#26. Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.
John Ralston Saul
#27. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
Alexander Hamilton
#28. Arnold Schwarzenegger is in some trouble. Today, the Los Angeles Times broke a story that quoted six women who claimed that Arnold Schwarzenegger sexually harassed them. When asked about it, President Clinton said 'six? That's not enough experience to be governor.'
Conan O'Brien
#29. 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
#30. Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.
Tyler Perry
#31. I just don't want to give out interviews. I just hate them. Inevitably, I ended up hurting some people or leaving some names out or getting quoted out of context.
Jerry Perenchio
#32. Women are quoted as sources and appear on interview shows much less frequently than men ... But the by-product of such anonymity may be immortality, for women are also less likely to find themselves written up on the obituary page.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
#33. The young woman quoted Turgenev, "If you want to annoy an opponent thoroughly or even harm him, you reproach him with every defect or vice you are conscious of in yourself.
Jack Vance
#34. When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.
Laurence J. Peter
#35. He can't ground her if he's already killed her," I pointed out when Juliana quoted this to me. "Well, he can, but it wouldn't have the same impact.
Claire LaZebnik
#36. Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of organized religion, you will discover that it endorsed slavery and quoted the Bible to approve it; the Pope even owned slaves.
John Shelby Spong
#37. My wife simply quoted, 'For better or worse.' It was only then that I realized the phrase was not multiple-choice.
Michael Gurnow
#38. And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.
Viktor E. Frankl
#39. My agent pointed out one day that I had been quoted by a columnist in some American newspaper, and he noted with some glee that they simply identified me by name without reminding people who I was, apparently in the clear expectation that their readers would know who I am.
Terry Pratchett
#40. The North Pole, but to someone looking from the equator, it appears to lie just at the horizon. From the difference in the apparent position of the North Star in Egypt and Greece, Aristotle even quoted an estimate that the distance
Stephen Hawking
#41. Kept talking about how she's studying every holy book she can get her hands on, aiming to understand God's word. I quoted St. Augustine to her. 'If you understand it, it isn't God.' Gave her a cup of chamomile tea.
Jeanne DuPrau
#42. Survival Movement in Hostile Areas," most of which he could have quoted verbatim if somebody asked him, but really all you had to know was the acronym BLISS: B - Blends in with the surroundings L - Low in silhouette I - Irregular in shape S - Small in size S - Secluded
T.C. Boyle
#43. Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
Joseph Addison
#44. Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose.
Lee Strasberg
#45. We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government.
Thomas Jefferson
#46. But speaking of Tennyson, have you read Maud?" "Once, long ago." "It's got some points about it." He quoted softly: "'Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null.
Agatha Christie
#47. Indescribably filthy jokes are perpetrated by a ventriloquist with the aid of a puppet.
(Quoted from the Bulletin of The Juvenile Protective Association, May 1921)
Frederic Milton Thrasher
#48. We found a jewel in the desert,'" I quoted. "'And from it fashioned a charred cinder.
'Queen of Fire Pg 313
Anthony Ryan
#49. 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
#50. I've had my own anecdotals with old friends, here's a gentleman quoted in the Times about, "I believe my government is suppose to protect me but it has let me down. I resent having to defend myself; I shouldn't have to but at this point I don't feel like I have a choice."
Chuck Todd
#51. Chesterton is quoted as saying, When a man stops believing in God, he doesn't then believe in nothing, he believes anything.
Mark Driscoll
#52. After all, it was never Darnay he quoted, only Sydney, drunk and wrecked and dissipated. Sydney, who died for love.
Cassandra Clare
#53. When we are born, we cry that we are to come to this great stage of fools,' I quoted from Shakespeare's King Lear.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#54. Jesus did not dispute [Satan] ... our Lord quoted Scripture, and that's one thing the devil can't stand! The Scripture defeats him every time.
Billy Graham
#55. Ladies, stress shows on your face. Happiness is the true beauty weapon.
As quoted in The Black Book of Hollywood Beauty Secrets ( Kym Douglas / Cindy Pearlman, 2006)
Susan Sarandon
#56. 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
#57. Why is it that white people find it easier to think like a mountain than like a person of colour?'
Carl Anthony quoted by Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit
#58. When my grandmother was sick in the hospital, I foolishly quoted her the saying, 'never regret growing old; it's a privileged denied to many.' She glared at me and responded, 'spoken like a truly young idiot.
Dan Pearce
#59. Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted his own words back to him. 'Not just when it's easy. All the time.
Ann Aguirre
#60. I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
[As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy De Maupassant: A Study]
Guy De Maupassant
#61. Zerbrowski said, "Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try."
It took me a second to realize that he had just quoted Star Wars to me. It made me smile, and in that moment I loved him, just for that.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#62. Since the world is ending," Peter quoted from behind us, "why not let the children touch the paintings?
Ben Lerner
#63. Come on guys, let's be serious. If you really want to do something, don't just 'like' this post. Write that you are ready, and we can try to start something" [Mustafa Nayyem quoted in Chrystia Freeland, "Euromaidan, Kiev: A Place Becomes A Movement"].
Catie Marron
#64. These were not people you could disagree with. If you disagreed, you were wrong."
Juliet Hopkins, Tavistock Institute, as quoted in Relationships and how They Shape Our Capacity to Love By Robert Karen
Juliet Hopkins
#65. It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people and quoted by the foolish.
Jill Johnston
#66. At no point did the [Burns] committee conclude, or even attempt to conclude, an assessment of cruelty. Yet many bodies have erroneously quoted the Burns report, stating that it clearly demonstrated that the practice of hunting wild animals with dogs caused cruelty. The report did not state that.
Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby Of Swaffham Prior
#67. 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
#68. I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted
not my hand held by an old smoothie.
William Safire
#69. The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.
Blaise Pascal
#70. Well, a lot of people don't want to be quoted. But keep in mind that Bob Woodward did all of his Watergate reporting with anonymous sources, and we know how that turned out.
Edward Klein
#71. The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.
Norman Ralph Augustine
#72. The New York Post quoted Senator Hillary Clinton saying that she would never run for President, declaring "That is not something I'm going to be doing. "Which in Clinton talk means "I will be President in three years.
Tina Fey
#73. Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
Ambrose Bierce
#74. I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really.
Andy Grove
#75. We also quoted Robert Luskin, Rove's attorney, acknowledging that Rove did speak to Cooper late on the week prior to the article coming out, which would have been July 10 or 11.
Michael Isikoff
#76. People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.
Muriel Spark
#77. I've been so mutilated by a lot of articles. I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers.
Mary Docter
#78. Hope is a waking dream," Jael quoted softly. "And it's the last thing to go. It torments you like a bird killing itself slowly against the glass.
Ann Aguirre
#79. Looks aren't everything," Kate said. "After all," she quoted, "'the devil hath power t'assume a pleasing shape.
Suzanne Harper
#80. 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
#81. The Bible said, as Chris quoted one memorable day, there was a time for
everything. I figured my time for happiness was just ahead, waiting
for me.
V.C. Andrews
#82. I would remain nearer you for what time there is."
"Gone in one faerie sigh," she quoted.
Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested on her cheek. "I can hold my breath.
Holly Black
#83. outshines little Elizabeth Taylor as Velvet. The child is completely natural and unaffected, with a very sweet expressive face and the most beautiful soft blue eyes I've seen on the screen in a long time" (quoted in Haggerty, 2011). Taylor remained contracted to MGM for the next
Ellis Cashmore
#84. We can only begin to live when we conceive life as
Tragedy.
W.B.Yeats
#85. a good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving" Taoist dictum quoted by Sam Miller
Sam Miller
#86. MacArthur himself was more interested in the similarities among phenomena, because similarities reveal the workings of regular processes ... I've already quoted MacArthur's statement that to do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts.
Quammen, David
#87. No Quote Has To Be Quoted.
P.C.M. Hermans
August 13, 2016
Petra Hermans
#88. Also, General Zinni, who commanded central command, was very much opposed to the war in the first place, as I was. We were both quoted to that effect in February of 2003.
William Odom
#89. Our indifference towards others can after all result in only one thing: the indifference of others towards us.
Vaclav Havel, quoted in Havel: A Life
Michael Zantovsky
#90. The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#91. I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said 'What play was that?' and he said 'It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.'
Bill Nighy
#92. I'd rather be frequently quoted than widely published.
Ron Brackin
#93. I remember. You take a great deal of
pleasure in small victories." Damen
quoted Laurent's words back to him.
"It's not small," said Laurent. "It's the
first time I've ever won a play against
my uncle.
C.S. Pacat
#94. Quoted a local woman, Courtney Speed, who owned a grocery
Rebecca Skloot
#95. Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.
W.C. Fields
#96. Images are life's most cherished moments quoted with wings.
C.C. Wyatt
#97. Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce's son, is quoted as saying, The best interpretation of a dream is one you apply.
Henry Reed
#98. You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore.
I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk
Chuck Palahniuk
#99. It didn't matter what you said as long as you were quoted.
Jonathan Galassi
#100. I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.
Barbara Corcoran
