Quotes and Sayings about Quotes

 

 

"I think quotes are very dangerous things."
- Kate Bush
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"Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful."
- Earl Butz
(Related: May, Quotes)

"You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate."
- Andrew Card
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"And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes."
- Steve Carlton
(Related: Irony, Quotes)

"It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me."
- Steve Carlton
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"But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen."
- Steve Case
(Related: People, Idea, Day, Quotes, Talk, Want)

"I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever."
- Brian Celio
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"Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do."
- Roger Ebert
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"I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day."
- Roger Ebert
(Related: Day, Quotes, Television)

"My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me."
- Peter Hain
(Related: Ireland, Job, Now, Old, Quotes, State)

"No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture."
- Learned Hand
(Related: History, Cause, Devil, Doubt, May, Quotes, Scripture, Support)

"A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on."
- Anthony Holden
(Related: Being, End, Insults, Man, Press, Quotes)

"I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession."
- Nafisa Joseph
(Related: Thoughts, Eyes, Possession, Quotes)

"It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn't have to bone up on any of it."
- June Lockhart
(Related: Day, Events, Newspapers, Press, Quotes, Reading, Research)

"In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them."
- George Mikes
(Related: People, Knowledge, Conversation, England, Quotes)

"Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!'"
- Conan O'Brien
(Related: First, Quotes, Religious, Will)

"There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband."
- Clifford Odets
(Related: Wife, Husband, Quotes)

"I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars."
- Daniel Okrent
(Related: Time, Dogs, Quotes)

"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely."
- Hesketh Pearson
(Related: Fact, Man, Obvious, Pride, Privilege, Quotes, Reason)

"The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make."
- Dan Quayle
(Related: People, American, May, Want)

"Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away."
- Ted Rall
(Related: Nothing, Quotes, Right, Road, Ruin, Writing)

"The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive."
- Kenneth Williams
(Related: Acquaintance, Quotes)