Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone-quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone else’s orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away. Part of what you enjoy in a documentary technique is the sense of banditry. To loot someone else’s life or sentences and make off with a point of view, which is called “objective” because you can make anything into an object by treating it this way, is exciting and dangerous.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.

I was concerned with the analysis of word meanings and relations between them. All quotes in the English Language had to be translated to Twi to mean exactly what the quote means. Even if it is a terminology in English, you have to get the exact Akan word, not just nearest in meaning.

'A quotation's only a short neat way of sayin' somethin' everybody knows, like "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide."' (Italics in original)

#* A free translation, as quoted in Fragments (2001) translated by Brooks Haxton

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

: As quoted by and , among others.

Lord Peter Wimsey: I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

#* A very free translation, as quoted in Contemporary Literature in Translation (1976), p. 21