Quoting Quotes

I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one. (J. D. Salinger)
Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons! View quote
Pompey
At the risk of quoting Mephistopheles I repeat: Welcome to hell. A hell erected and maintained by human-governments, and blessed by black robed judges. A hell that allows you to see your loved ones, but not to touch them. A hell situated in America's boondocks, hundreds of miles away from most families. A white, rural hell, where most of the captives are black and urban. It is an American way of death. View quote
Mumia Abu-Jamal
In quoting others, we cite ourselves. View quote
Julio Cortázar
Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog, it will not be because you admire them. View quote
Roger Ebert
The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some 'expert'... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything. View quote
Peter McWilliams
You should never try to be better than someone else, you should always be learning from others. But you should never cease trying to be the best you could be because that's under your control and the other isn't. quoting his father. View quote
John Wooden
My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is, me judice [in my opinion], no book - it is a plaything. View quote
Thomas Love Peacock
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting. View quote
John Green (author)
Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
quoting reminds me there are other people in the world besides only me. And other thoughts besides mine, and other ways of thinking. (Gregory Maguire)
I'm horrible at quoting movies! Even my very favorites are not easily recalled or programmed to memory. When people start movie quoting around me, I'm that person who just smiles and then looks up the reference later. View quote
Ashley Rickards
Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. View quote
Carolyn Heilbrun
Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Since quoting the Quran may get this book banned, I will merely give the verse numbers... View quote
Koenraad Elst
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.' (quoting John Greenleaf Whittier) View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
If something just plain didn't make sense to Alvin, he didn't believe it, and no amount of quoting from the Bible would convince him. Now Taleswapper was telling him that he was right to refuse to believe things that made no sense. View quote
Orson Scott Card
He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons. Ignore him. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased. "He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him. View quote
Cassandra Clare
There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from."... "You're quoting Snoopy the dog, I believe?" "I'll quote the truth wherever I find it thank you. View quote
Richard Bach
[quoting her producer] "The network is concerned. They're concerned about the fullness of your face. They think you're really overweight and you're going to have to do something about it." I didn't know what to say to that. I always thought I was decent looking; I had no idea that I was a giant face taking over America! HERE COMES THE FACE!! (Margaret Cho)
[Quoting Seneca] Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school, "and these," said she, "are my jewels." View quote
Robert Burton
Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
.. learn to draw: that's where most of you [Troyon's pupils] are falling down today.... draw with all your might; you can never learn to much. However, don't neglect painting, go to the country from time to time and make studies and above all develop them..' [Monet is quoting in his letter Troyon, a friend of Boudin in Paris]. View quote
Claude Monet
Fictional serial killers are usually more pretentious than frightening, perpetually quoting Milton or arranging their victims in poses designed to evoke the martyrdom of St Sebastian. What are you, a cold-blooded murderer or the controller of Radio 3? View quote
Charlie Brooker