#quotation

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#bus #conclusions #dime #draw #people

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#books #good #good thing #man #quotations

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. ↗

— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#insulting #point #quotations #use #words

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. ↗

— Orson Welles

#order #quotations #recognize #shakespeare #sit

A Prince asked the dying spanish statesman, "Does your Excellency forgive all your enemies?" "I do not have to forgive all my enemies," answered the stateman, "I have had them all shot. ↗

— Robert Greene

#forgiveness

I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dead-language #death #eulogy #funeral #funny

What is it you’re interested in exactly?” the man asked slowly. “Just the color?” “I think we both know,” said Adrian cunningly. “I want the color. I want the ‘bonus effects.’ And I want it to look badass. You probably can’t even do the design I want.” “That’s the least of your worries,” said the guy. “I’ve been doing this for years. I can draw anything you want.” “Yeah? Can you draw a skeleton riding a motorcycle with flames coming out of it? And I want a pirate hat on the skeleton. And a parrot on his shoulder. A skeleton parrot. Or maybe a ninja skeleton parrot? No, that would be overkill. But it’d be cool if the biker skeleton could be shooting some ninja throwing stars. That are on fire.” “That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard,” said the tattooist. “That’s not what the ladies are going to say,” said Adrian ↗

— Richelle Mead

#design

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

#corner #dog #either #i #john

[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business." (The Record Lie) ↗

— A.A. Milne

#quotations #quotes #business

They verbally attacked each other with Mao's quotations, making cynical use of his guru-like elusiveness--it was easy to select a quotation of Mao's to suit any situation, or even both sides of the same argument. ↗

— Jung Chang

#quotations #change