#quote

I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#around #cars #chasing #dogs #i

What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing - is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the 'net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre! ↗

— Robert Palmer

#becomes #bizarre #currency #ends #gets

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

#fact #in fact #learned #man #misquotation

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#i #i can #into #just #learned

A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany. ↗

— Johannes Rau

#ahead #already #assertion #been #creative

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone. ↗

— David Sedaris

#been #comes #description #diary #every

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#strength-and-courage #courage

What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war. ↗

— Peter Schuyler

#administration #control #did #fields #first

A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up to those unrivalled heights. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#art

I will never take what is never given, but I will receive to what is given. ↗

— Michael Jones

#michael-jones #poetry #poetry-life #poetry-quotes #life