Quote
To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat, or adduce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; as, to quote a passage from Homer.
To cite a passage from; to name as the authority for a statement or an opinion; as, to quote Shakespeare.
To name the current price of.
To notice; to observe; to examine.
To set down, as in writing.
A note upon an author.
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Quote Quotations
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
Groucho Marx
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de Montaigne
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
Arthur Conan Doyle
California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.
Saul Bellow
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham
It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'
Mos Def
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Robert Benchley
I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.
Joe DiMaggio
In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have.
Conan O'Brien
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
There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
Bo Bennett
I have never seen any such quote anyplace, anywhere.
Sean Hannity
There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.
Robert Creeley
Please don't quote me.
Mike Piazza
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Edward Young
The greatest men, you can quote for everything.
John Acton
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.
Learned Hand
I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.
Studs Terkel
In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
John Selden
My first quote was, I don't want to hurt God's people. Jim Bakker's quote was, I was set up by a female.
Jessica Hahn
I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
Hamilton Jordan
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
You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper, and I can understand where he's coming from because he says rappers can't act.
Anthony Anderson
I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say that, but one of my favorite remarks he ever made was that when you look at Federal programs, there is nothing so close to eternal life on Earth as a Federal Government program.
Marsha Blackburn
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
So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?
James Woods
We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth.
Mike Lowry
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Quote Translations
quote in Afrikaans is aanhaal
quote in Dutch is aanhalen, citeren, noemen
quote in Finnish is siteerata
quote in French is citent, citer, guillemet, citons, citez, grever
quote in Italian is gravare, calcolare
quote in Norwegian is sitere, notere
quote in Spanish is citar, gravar, suputar, cotizar, mencionar
quote in Swedish is ange, citera
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