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

- Ambrose Bierce

I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.

- Andrew Marr

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

- Charles Edward Montague

I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

- E. L. Doctorow

Vladimir Putin was awarded an advanced degree by the St. Petersburg Mining Institute with the help of a dissertation that, as two Brookings researchers discovered, included sixteen stolen pages - and, remarkably, not a single set of quotation marks.

- Evan Osnos

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

- Evelyn Waugh

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

- James A. Baldwin

Life itself is a quotation.

- Jorge Luis Borges

The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation.

- James P. Carse

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

- Janet Malcolm

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.

- Michael Steele

I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.

- Peter James

We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.

- Rachael Ray

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

- Samuel Johnson