The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. – Attributed to W. Somerset Maugham
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The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them. – Gary Saul Morson, “Bakhtin, The Genres of Quotation, and The Aphoristic Consciou
Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize. – Isaac D’Israeli, “Quotation,” A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature
[W]hen I hear or read a good line I can hardly wait to tell it to somebody else… – Robert Byrne, The Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said,
I was just a kid and I didnt have a dad. Thats hard, because when youre a kid, you blame yourself for everything. And I blamed myself for him not being around, for my parents not being together. – Jonathan Rhys Meyers
My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing Id ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and Id sketch shoes and shoes and shoes. – Alexander Wang
