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Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.

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

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!

We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.