Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

Quotations: I love them because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizedly wiser than oneself.

The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one

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.

There are no words more powerful than the truth.

I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning — if you have enough of them.

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 think of quotes as mini–instruction manuals for the soul.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

Today's quote worth requoting...

Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.