A Quote by Andre Malraux
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.
...You have to pass an exam, and the jobs that you get are either to shine shoes, or to herd cows, or to tend pigs. Thank God, I don't want any of that! Damn it! And besides that they smack you for a reward; they call you an animal and it's not true, a little kid, etc.. Oh! Damn Damn Damn Damn Damn!
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.
We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.
A wide range of quotations are necessary for the repertoire of a well-rounded speaker. Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many.
Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations.
With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.
Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history.
I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.
Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.
How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
I was fascinated by quotations and lists. And then I noticed that other people were fascinated by quotations and lists: people as different as Borges and Walter Benjamin, Novalis and Godard.
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