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Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage) -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late! -- Jeanette Winterson
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
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
Quoting Scripture texts is different than shaping a worldview around them." -- Justin Taylor
Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons) -- C. S. Lewis
I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview. -- Fareed Zakaria
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.[Quoting Reverend Phillips Brooks, during Remarks at Presidential Prayer Breakfast, February 7 1963] -- John F. Kennedy
The head has no answers, and the heart has no questions, Jack would say.Quoting his teacher and good friend Jack Kakakaway -- Richard Wagamese
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
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
Quoting Scripture leads you to the fountain, but only if you plunge in and come up wet will I know that you are a Christian. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
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
Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn't matter if you're going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25) -- Stephen Levine
Quoting Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998) US civil rights leader We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy. -- Harriet Tubman
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
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. -- Peter McWilliams
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
Quoting Samuel Johnson: "Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves. -- James Boswell
Quoting Demosthenes, 'For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.' I would rather make money playing a piano in a whorehouse than arguing that no cost is incurred when employees are paid in stock options instead of cash. I am not kidding. -- Charlie Munger
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings -- Diogenes
Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true. -- Steven Morrissey
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting. -- John Green
Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003 -- Anne Lamott
[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots -- Joseph J. Ellis
I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition. -- Richard Dawkins
Monty Python is like catnip for nerds. Once you get them started quoting it, they are constitutionally incapable of feeling depressed. -- Kevin Hearne
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. -- Daniel Handler
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
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
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
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
George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us we'd make one marvelous man. He asks nothing better than to be in my company or that of my wicked, divine friends, and I'm vastly tickled by the compliment. He's virgin, about eight foot tall, and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge -- John le Carre
I'm getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan. -- Michael Reagan
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
In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them. -- John Selden
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
When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.' -- Kate Mara
It's just, people recognize you for your work, you know? They love you for your work, and they judge you for your work. It's awesome to have people quoting you. I love it. -- Tracy Morgan
When we created 'Goodness Gracious Me,' it was quoting 'Python' and Woody Allen lines that really bonded the writers, and the 'Spamalot' material is so utterly, wonderfully surreal that it hasn't dated. -- Sanjeev Bhaskar
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
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. -- Ashley Rickards
It really gets on my goat that people keep quoting Dorothea Mackellar's 'My Country' as proof that there is no such thing as climate change. A poem written more than 100 years ago by a homesick 19 year old versus an ever-increasing body of refereed scientific thought... hmm, hard to know which way to jump, really. -- Judy Horacek
Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons! -- Pompey
In quoting others, we cite ourselves. -- Julio Cortazar
I'm quoting Margaret Thatcher. I quote her frequently. -- Carly Fiorina
Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.... -- H. G. Wells
The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me -- Oscar Wilde
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Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true. -- Steven Morrissey
There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting. -- Alain de Botton
A little extra forgiveness never hurts," said Matt, quoting one of Celia's favorite sayings. -- Nancy Farmer
Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time. -- James Mangold
...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel. -- Andrew Sullivan
An ally in time of need is worth more than gold.(Lady Rose quoting Scholar Tan) -- Michael Pryor
Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased. "He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him. -- Cassandra Clare
I don't like to quote myself but unfortunately everybody I know who should be quoting me is dead. -- Irving Brecher
Brush up your Shakespeare, Start quoting him now, Brush up your Shakespeare And the women you will wow. -- Cole Porter
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.) -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging. -- Walter F. Mondale
It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to. -- Scott Westerfeld
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
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself. -- Marcel Proust
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.
Jesus died as He had lived-praying, forgiving, loving, sacrificing, trusting, quoting Scripture. If I die as I have lived, how will I die? -- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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 used to be an angry man myself. I'm a recovering assaholic so I could recognize that in Steve. (quoting Jean-Louis GassÃ©e) -- Walter Isaacson
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
There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster. -- Mortimer Adler
The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - 'to spew out paper.' -- Dave Barry
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. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
Every time [Rand Paul] opens his mouth, it gets a little crazier. Today he angrily demanded that the liberal media stop quoting him in context. -- Bill Maher
Well, I'm just quoting you when you [Donald Trump] were asked about a potential nuclear competition in Asia, you said, you know, go ahead, enjoy yourselves, folks. -- Hillary Clinton
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
Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing the person said. -- Neil Gaiman
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
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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
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
I am a musicologist, a doctor of music. Therefore I listened to, studied and analysed a lot of music. I also enjoy metaphors, the art of quoting and of cycles. -- James Horner
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
People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me -- Jean-Luc Godard
With the risk of being accused of quoting the wrong person I can say that [Adolf] Hitler wrote that "the more the press attacks a person the closer he is to us". -- Varg Vikernes
we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. (quoting Joel Salatin) -- Michael Pollan
I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of the writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one. -- J. D. Salinger
The young Centurion, who had been completely still throughout, said very softly, as though to himself, "Greater love hath no man--" and Justin thought it sounded as though he were quoting someone else. -- Rosemary Sutcliff
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

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