Quotes About Quoting

#1. 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

#2. Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold.

--Johnny quoting Robert Frost

S.E. Hinton

#3. The head has no answers, and the heart has no questions, Jack would say.
Quoting his teacher and good friend Jack Kakakaway

Richard Wagamese

#4. Poor white trash quoting de Maistre and Carlyle and fancying themselves elite while they scrabbled to survive in a world where they were outstripped economically by the Chinese and intellectually by their own phones.

Ken MacLeod

#5. I hope you'll understand that I am not quoting those great words lightly. I do mean it. Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#7. I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.
No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#8. Leadership is a journey, not a destination. It is a marathon, not a sprint. It is a process, not an outcome. (quoting John Donahoe)

Bill George

#9. I love it when you talk clean to me, quoting training manuals like sonnets.

Amanda Hocking

#10. Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

Jeanette Winterson

#11. Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal

Pablo Picasso

#12. I'm quoting Margaret Thatcher. I quote her frequently.

Carly Fiorina

#13. Why am I quoting myself?

Aarti Patel

#14. I know the Bible pretty well. I'm not one of those guys who can immediately start quoting every book, but usually I know where to look to find certain themes.

John Darnielle

#15. If you aren't a living example of 'the devil quoting scripture.'

Judith McNaught

#16. Lady Catherine quoting Lizzie Bennet:
She had the impudence to reply that, whilst these would be heavy misfortunes, your wife must have such extraordinary sources of happiness necessarily attached to her situation, that she could, upon the whole, have no cause to repine.

Janet Aylmer

#17. There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.

Alain De Botton

#18. It was easy enough to invent theological-sounding passages, provided you used the right language. Most people presumed you were quoting something too obscure for them to recognise.

Alex Scarrow

#19. Gratitude", he said, quoting Stalin, "is a dog's disease.

Robert Harris

#20. Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#21. [Agatha Christie] is fond of quoting the witty wife who once said, 'an archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Christie's husband, Max Mallowan, was an archaeologist.

Nigel Dennis

#22. We have been lost for so long,' " she said, still quoting from that scene. She looked past him at the boy. The boy was staring at the gun in his hands. He was nodding, seemingly to himself. " 'We long only for the world we were born into.'

Emily St. John Mandel

#23. Okay, Dolly Brooke killed her because she was going to marry a quote nigger unquote, and how do we prove it?'
He frowned. 'I have told you not to use that word in my hearing.'
'I was merely quoting. It isn't - '
'Shut up. I mean the word 'unquote' and you know it.

Rex Stout

#24. When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#25. I'm kind of quoting Thurston [Moore] and Kim [Gordon] in saying that about not being great with addicts, because they are the ones who said it to me.

Michael Stipe

#26. I skim through our notebook, thick with words, and then through our Facebook messages - so many now - and then I write a new one, quoting Virginia Woolf: Let us wander whirling to the gilt chairs. ... Are we not acceptable, moon? Are we not lovely sitting together here ... ?

Jennifer Niven

#27. I really want to be all serious and nod my head at that, but I think you just attempted to drop knowledge by quoting a movie in which David Bowie wears tights.

Scarlett Cole

#28. 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

#29. Quoting an experienced school counselor: "You can't change a bully into a flower child, but you can change him into a knight.

Leonard Sax

#30. Speaking one's mind once is more honorable than quoting a thousand men.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#31. And proceeding to follow the example of the devil in quoting Scripture for his own ends I added: She looketh to the ways of her household ... .

Agatha Christie

#32. Oftentimes, what seems to be a street lunatic charging at me spouting gibberish turns out to be a devoted 'Simpsons' fan quoting their favorite line.

Matt Groening

#33. 'Point Break' is a movie that I and all of my friends grew up loving, watching all the time, quoting, living and being.

Luke Bracey

#34. Werewolves and silver bullets!" Shakespeare coughed a quick laugh and shook his head. "Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Michael Scott

#35. Quitting is a hiccup for losers. And down they go.

Lorenz Font

#36. Least said,soonest mended, Toby quipped, quoting a saying Jess often used.

Jean Little

#37. Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work.

Knut Hamsun

#38. Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

Susie Bright

#39. Quoting Father Seraphim:
Our life hangs only by a breath. It is the thread that links you to the Father, the Source, which brought you into being. Be conscious of this thread, and go where you will. (27)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#40. Appa enjoys our current prosperity with considerable hesitation, as if it were undeserved. He's given to quoting a proverb that says wealth shouldn't strike suddenly like a visitation, but instead grow gradually like a tree.

Vivek Shanbhag

#41. I have taken the liberty of quoting at length throughout from the gospels of the Emperor penguins. To them I owe a special debt of gratitude for their remarkable patience.

Donald Finkel

#42. Women often are much more willing to fight for their children than themselves.
-Airiana (quoting Max)

Christine Feehan

#43. Not your fault, Hazel Grace. We're all just side effects, right?" "'Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness,'" I said, quoting AIA.

John Green

#44. Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise.

Peter Behrens

#45. The policemen agreed they were living with a most peculiar fellow. One moment he was reading classical literature in the original French and quoting Tennyson, and the next he would be discussing the best way to blow up a train.

Ben Macintyre

#46. Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons!

Pompey

#47. Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)

Douglas Adams

#48. Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true.

Morrissey

#49. Abe, why do you not just add that Christians slaughter their newborns, are child molesters and F**k sheep, as then you would complete the arguments of Minicius Felix who you are eager to reproduce without quoting him?

Cay Hasselmann

#50. To sum up, as Bibiano said, quoting Parra: that's how it goes, the glory of the world; no world, no glory, not even a miserable mortadella sandwich

Roberto Bolano

#51. Brush up your Shakespeare,
Start quoting him now,
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow.

Cole Porter

#52. One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

Marcel Proust

#53. For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.

Daniel Defoe

#54. It's a showy habit I've got," I say. "To be always quoting poetry and stuff. Some of us use our brains, and some of us use our memories.

Barbara Trapido

#55. In reality high profits tend much more to raise the price of (a piece of) work than high wages. (quoting Adam Smith - ch.
(III - From Corporatism to Democracy)

John Ralston Saul

#56. ... superb presentations - start by establishing "what is: here's the status quo." Then, they "compare that to what could be," making "that gap as big as possible" - Quoting Nancy Duarte

Adam M. Grant

#57. Head's all empty, I don't care,' he'd sing to me, quoting the Grateful Dead, and I'd force a smile, thinking that my head was never empty and that if it ever was, you could be darn sure I'd care.

Jennifer Weiner

#58. The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen.

Lemony Snicket

#59. In case after case in the past, there is a kind of Bible-quoting intoxication under the influence of which we religious people lose the ability to distinguish between what God says and what we say God says.

Brian D. McLaren

#60. Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

Ralph E. Reed Jr.

#61. I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.

Richard Dawkins

#62. Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.

Bill Vaughan

#63. Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance.

Fady Joudah

#64. Oh God. He's quoting Tolstoy and touching me. I'm done for.

Helena Hunting

#65. I sounded like Horton the Elephant. "A person is a person no matter how small." What the hell was I doing standing in the middle of a cave, in the dark, surrounded by wererats, quoting Dr. Seuss, and trying to kill a one-thousand-year-old vampire?

Laurell K. Hamilton

#66. When a German soldier is running at you, there's no point quoting Virgil at him, you're better off kicking a football in his face.

Cesca Major

#67. One isn't improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.
- Poppy (quoting Win)

Lisa Kleypas

#68. There is no more irritating fellow than the one who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or freedom, by quoting from the dictionary. Lexicographers may be respected as authorities on word usage, but they are not the ultimate founts of wisdom.

Mortimer J. Adler

#69. You show me a school with a principal behind the desk, and I'll show you a school without principal leadership. (Quoting Baruti Kafele)

William Sterrett

#70. And they are torturing Muslims, and their drones are bombing wedding parties (by accident!), and the Dreamers are quoting Martin Luther King and exulting nonviolence for the weak and the biggest guns for the strong.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#71. But I was so much older then," sang Archie mischievously, quoting a ten-year-old Dylan track, arching his head round the door, "I'm younger than that now.

Zadie Smith

#72. ...There is no friendship in the desert, there is no love. The Sahara only knows allies and accomplices. [Hopkins quoting B. Gysin's The Process]

John Hopkins

#73. The nice thing about life is that it's filled with second chances. Quoting Bill.

Don DeLillo

#74. Fawcett, quoting a companion, wrote that cannibalism at least provides a reasonable motive for killing a man, which is more than you can say for civilized warfare.

David Grann

#75. There is no pleasure so acute as that of a well-placed semi-colon. (the author is actually quoting a friend here)

Mary Norris

#76. Quoting an old proverb: "An empty cart rattles loudly." she said. meaning, One who lacks substance boasts loudest.

Alan Brennert

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Dave Ramsey

#78. Well," I said. "Hello, nurse." "I can't think of a sexier first impression than a man quoting Yakko and Wakko Warner," she said, her tone dry.

Anonymous

#79. I've never said anything worth quoting. You can quote me on that. My characters' words are another matter.

Karen Vorbeck Williams

#80. Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

Joy Fielding

#81. The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.

Ihab Hassan

#82. People quoting others have nothing of their own to offer.

Moris Mateljan

#83. There is no end or purpose to existence, only ceaseless creation and destruction, governed entirely by chance.

Stephan Greenblatt

#84. Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time.

James Mangold

#85. Quoting God's Word in the present tense infuses our hearts with holy restraint and diffuses our reactions so we don't spew.

Lysa TerKeurst

#86. Bad liars always think they're good at it. (quoting Michael Moynihan)

Jon Ronson

#87. He'd be quoting Yeats any moment now if he kept up this nonsense.

Kelly Moran

#88. If you're bumming out, you're not gonna get to the top, so as long as we're up here we might as well make a point of grooving. (Quoting Scott Fischer)

Jon Krakauer

#89. A little extra forgiveness never hurts, said Matt, quoting one of Celia's favorite sayings.

Nancy Farmer

#90. When I quote Scripture, I know I am quoting the very Word of God.

Billy Graham

#91. You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging.

Walter F. Mondale

#92. No wagon keeps the same wheels forever.

Lisa Kleypas

#93. Quoting oneself is the writer's selfie.

Andrew Craven

#94. The next time you hear someone cite, 'Do not kill' when quoting the sixth commandment, gently but firmly explain that it actually says, 'Do not murder.

Dennis Prager

#95. It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.

Robert Plant

#96. I find it truly appalling that there are people in the world like you. You are a disgusting, vile, repulsive, repugnant, foul creature. Because of you, I don't believe in God anymore. No just God would allow someone like you to exist. (Quoting feedback from a reader)

Tucker Max

#97. An aimless joy is a pure joy," I said, quoting Yeats.

Paul Theroux

#98. Winston, I don't know what I want, but I want you to go out and get it. When I see it, I'll know if it's what I thought I wanted. (Quoting a photography client.)

O. Winston Link

#99. Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.

Scott Westerfeld

#100. (Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury
Lion, rifles
and stupidity.

Beryl Markham