Top 100 Quotes About Quoted
#1. Only an ass would type up a quote for himself. Get quoted after doing something epic. Until then, go live.
Daniel Hague
#2. You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.
Henry Van Dyke
#3. Let he who sins when drunk be punished when sober. - Quoted in Kendrick v. Hopkins, 1580
Keith G. Laufenberg
#4. Buffett, when he gave away his money, referenced Carnegie. He quoted from Carnegie. When he said, "The man who dies rich dies disgraced," in the 1880s, his fellow millionaires looked on him like he was a lunatic, you know, an idiot, a mad man.
David Nasaw
#5. David Halberstam quoted Lyndon Johnson saying of a staffer: I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses.
David Halberstam
#6. When she found a place of her own
and packed her bags he asked her to marry him. She kissed him, and quoted in his ear,
He married a woman to stop her getting away, Now she's there all day.
Ian McEwan
#7. The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
Carl Honore
#8. Time takes no holiday. It does not roll idly by, but through our senses works its own wonders in the mind. Time came and went from one day to the next; in its coming and its passing it brought me other hopes and other memories. [quoted in Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo, p. 54]
Augustine Of Hippo
#10. I've heard it quoted that I was dead. You can't believe anything you read. That was just an off-hand remark somebody picked up, and now it's been quoted and quoted, and therefore misquoted.
Tom Lehrer
#11. There are proverbs about frying pans and fires that I might have quoted to myself, but I preferred to adapt a different one to my purposes: better the devil that would attack everyone impartially than the devil specifically looking to kill us.
Marie Brennan
#12. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
Alexander Smith
#13. Idolatry is not holding on to the wrong things; it is holding on to the good things wrongly, including God," Herbert McCabe, O.P., quoted in Christian Century, August 21, 2013, 21. Any
Rev. Joseph A. Heim
#14. Then a man onstage quoted Sam Houston, saying, "Texas can make it without the United States, BUT THE UNITED STATES CANNOT MAKE IT WITHOUT TEXAS!" and everyone in the entire fucking audience yelled it along with him, and I thought, "Wow. It's really no wonder that the rest of America hates us.
Jenny Lawson
#15. I don't even like being quoted in a press release.
Marco Arment
#16. A good scientist (DT quoted Einstein) will acknowledge that more than 50% of scientific breakthroughs are reached through post-rationalised ideas, not through sequential logic.
Rory Sutherland
#17. Stick to a task, 'til it sticks to you. Beginners are many, finishers are few. -Anonymous, as quoted in Small and Simple Things.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
#18. Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.
Todd Gitlin
#19. No: Space was the wrong name. Older thinkers had been wiser when they named it simply the heavens - the heavens which declared the glory - the happy climes that ly Where day never shuts his eye Up in the broad fields of the sky. He quoted Milton's words to himself lovingly, at this time and often.
C.S. Lewis
#20. I refuse to wait until my demise to be quoted!!!"
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#21. State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production.
Quoted in The Situationists and the City, pg. 194
Friedrich Engels
#22. The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow.
Rudyard Kipling
#23. A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)
Neil Gaiman
#24. Every revolution begins with breakfast,' I quoted as they left. 'Is this your revolution, Jaxon?
Samantha Shannon
#25. Let her cover the mark as she will,'" he quoted sardonically, "'the pang of it will always be in her heart.
Lisa Kleypas
#26. The Bible was the only book Jesus ever quoted, and then never as a basis for discussion but to decide the point at issue.
Leon Morris
#27. Winning supporters over can only really be achieved by what you do, not what you say. It's no use just smiling and shaking hands and getting quoted with witty one-liners.
Randy Lerner
#28. If you don't want to lose your job, you become conservative, you keep your head down," he told me. "And it's pretty unfortunate, because without the willingness to fail, the possibility for great success is eliminated. [quoted from Mark Roth]
Sanjay Gupta
#29. I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
Benjamin Franklin
#30. A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
Albert Camus - As quoted in Albert Camus : The Invincible Summer (1958) by Albert Maquet, p. 86; a remark made about the Marquis de Sade.
Albert Camus
#31. For the good that I would,'" he quoted, "'I do not; and the evil that I would not, that I do.'" "Who said that?" "The man who invented Christianity - St. Paul.
Aldous Huxley
#32. Blessings of battle-luck and might, confounded enemies and inevitable victory." That sounded familiar. "To crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women," I quoted. She seemed like a Conan the Barbarian kind of girl.
E. William Brown
#33. I can't believe you quoted Shakespeare and the Doors in the same breath.
Jessica Topper
#34. Maxims are often quoted by those who stand in more need of their application.
James Ellis
#35. I asked Mother how she endured so many years of goodbyes. She quoted a mountain-man who said, 'Make the least of all that goes and the most of all that comes.'
Gigi Graham
#36. most dangerous thing in the world is to try and leap a chasm in two jumps,'" Paul quoted with dignified seriousness.
Glenn Michaels
#37. Do you know great people are continually quoted while the average always misquote great people?
Onyi Anyado
#38. The culture of power versus the power of culture," he quoted. "One side always loses.
Ausma Zehanat Khan
#39. Their imperfect record at awards shows was disappointing, sure, but the best prize of all came when, on February 4, 1986, President Ronald Reagan name-checked and quoted directly from the movie - where we're going, we don't need roads - in his State of the Union address.
Caseen Gaines
#40. Amanda raised her glass in a toast. "Here's a wet one to Saint Iris of the Hummocks!" Then she winced and scowled at Riker, who had kicked her under the table. Polly raised her glass and quoted from Hamlet: "And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#41. The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.
William Shenstone
#42. I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
Alfred North Whitehead
#43. To irrational principles, one cannot be loyal. Ideas that are not derived from reality cannot be consistently practiced in reality.
as quoted by Leonard Peikoff in Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
#44. I know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly.
Lee Marvin
#45. Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
[Address to National Press Club in Washington DC, as quoted in Freedom and Union (April 1952)]
Earl Warren
#46. Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It's quotable because it's been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority.
Louis Menand
#47. However close you can be to a vegan diet and further from the mean American diet, the better you are for the planet." quoted by Gidon Eshel (Bard College geographer)
James McWilliams
#49. Henry Ford is quoted as saying. "History is more or less bunk." Now, if he never spoke those words, doesn't that just prove he was right when he didn't say them?
Alex Bosworth
#50. I quoted to him what I remembered of Charles Darwin: "'Judging by the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity ... '"
"Darwin was right," Nebogipfel said gently.
Stephen Baxter
#51. A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
Alan W. Watts
#52. Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.
[As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]
George Bernard Shaw
#53. Do or do not. There is no try, says Yoda, the bewitching philosopher warrior created by George Lucas in Star Wars. Yoda is quoted at least as often as the founding fathers on this topic.
Jerry I. Porras
#54. This was a report from a single source. It was an established and reliable line of reporting. It was quoted from a senior Iraqi military officer in a position to know this information.
John Scarlett
#55. Brother Horse spread five fingers in the wind. "'Thus the tree grows,'" he quoted, "'and each new branch, as a new tree. Nothing is unchanging, least of all the ways of people.
Greg Keyes
#56. 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
#57. Joel sat back in his chair and laughed at what seemed to be an inside joke, one in which I wanted very much to be let in on. An amiable smile stretched across his lips quoted by perfect dimples. I stared at him wanting nothing more than to indulge myself in that smile.
Shawn Kirsten Maravel
#58. Nora Barnacle is not a very interesting person." So said Richard Ellmann, author of the definitive James Joyce biography, to Brenda Maddox, author of the only Nora Barnacle biography, who quoted him to me.
Jessa Crispin
#59. A visit always brings pleasure-- if not when it begins, then when it ends. (Quoted from another book)
Emmanuel Carrere
#60. Tony La Russa was quoted as saying that I was using steroids back then, and I was talking about it in the clubhouse, openly.
Jose Canseco
#61. Many of the stranger but most frequently quoted scenes in 'Billy Madison' were unplanned.
Tamra Davis
#62. Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
Fred Allen
#63. Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#64. Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fine because that's public domain. I know exactly what I'm doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it's saying, 'This is who I am, and I don't have anything to hide.'
Samuel Barnett
#65. When all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
[as quoted by Alfred E Neuman]
Lou Holtz
#66. Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.
Jason Calacanis
#67. Like many of the people quoted on this dust-cover, I have not read Carl King's book. I am confident, however, that my review still applies: So, You're a Creative Genius is the best book available on modern cartography.
Heather Anne Campbell
#68. If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it.
~(Camus, as quoted by Tony Judt)
Albert Camus
#69. The greater part of our writers, ... have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.
Isaac D'Israeli
#71. I write to make sense of my life.
-John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey
John Cheever
#72. Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.
Terry Gilliam
#73. Nobody makes a movie thinking it's still going to be watched and talked about and quoted 20 years later.
Harry Shearer
#74. Not much could have distracted me from coffee, but hearing Julius Caesar quoted at Spencer's certainly did.
Richelle Mead
#75. You quoted Oscar Wilde." I smiled.
Hayden laughed. "Yeah, that was, like, the height of geekdom."
"No. It was kind of cool.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#76. An oft-quoted statistic from the [United Nations] reports is that the amount of literature translated into Spanish in a single year exceeds the entire corpus of what has been translated into Arabic in 1,000 years.
The Economist
#77. Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.
Nora Watson quoted by Studs Terkel2
R. Paul Stevens
#78. A St. Louis oncology nurse quoted Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl to States News Service in 2012: " 'What is to give light must endure burning.' I think people who care for others understand. Caregiving is painful.
Alexandra Robbins
#80. We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#81. The humanist, who read too much, ate too much. He quoted and burped, and these two complaints were equally repugnant to his neighbor, a self-made aristocrat, Madame Lenoir.
Marcel Proust
#82. Ron Sirak, a golf writer and friend, was quoted as saying, "Annika is no longer a female golfer. She's a golfer." That's truly all I ever aspired to be.
Annika Sorenstam
#83. Mark Twain. Samuel Clemens has been quoted as saying he thought the Book of Mormon was "chloroform in print". For
Park B. Romney
#84. I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I contain multitudes." I understand that.
Patti Smith
#85. I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.
Robert M. Gates
#86. I intend that my last work shall be a cookbook composed of memories and desires.
Alexander Dumas, 1869, as quoted in Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days by James and Kay Salter
Alexandre Dumas
#87. If it dies, it's biology; if it blows up, it's chemistry;
if it doesn't work, it's physics!"
As quoted from grafitti on a bathroom wall.
John Wilkes
#88. I have been a stranger in a strange land, Halleck quoted. Paul stared at him, recognizing the quotation from the O.C. Bible, wondering: Does Gurney, too, wish an end to devious plots?
Frank Herbert
#89. Thou the stars are fire. Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar. But never doubt I love,' he quoted.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#90. When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.
Noah Baumbach
#91. My father quoted Shakespeare to me often and when I lay a book down with splayed pages he told me better to be cruel to animals, children even, but never so cruelly treat a book.
Christine Wade
#92. Open yer mind to the world, kids. No point havin' yer windows open if yer don't pull back the curtains to let in the light! - Grandpa's favourite saying to Kirsten and Jeremy. Quoted in The Hybrid and the Emeralds of Elisar
Suellen Drysdale
#93. There is a hand behind every curtain,' " she quoted. " 'And a knife in every hand,' " finished Mara.
Raymond E. Feist
#94. Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused,'" Gabriel quoted. "One of the unrecorded Beatitudes.
Terri Garey
#95. Did you just curse? Isn't 'hell' - she air quoted - "a cursed word?"
"How 'bout you go straight there and see?
P.C. Cast
#96. Everyone quoted it, it was full of so many words that they could not understand.
Oscar Wilde
#97. When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of magic.
[As quoted on WritersServices, 6 March 2012]
Susanna Clarke
#98. The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women.
Jose Saramago
#99. Of all the charges which have been leveled against me," he is quoted as saying in the Nuremberg Interviews, "the so-called looting of art treasures by me has caused me the most anguish.
Robert M. Edsel
#100. In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.
Jessica Savitch
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