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If they somehow believe that an effort to subjugate' only' -- in quotation marks -- the eastern part of Ukraine and the southern part of Ukraine can succeed, then once again they are profoundly fooling themselves. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Most of us have heard the famous quotation that' injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,' kevin Strickland stands as our own example of what happens when a system set to be just, just gets it terribly wrong. – Jean Peters	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Good news: Product transfers from China are leading to more quotation requests and order overflow, bad news: Materials are not coming in from China. – Goh Guek Eng	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Our plan is clear, that we want to be one of those, we have a number of RFQs (request for quotation) at this moment for ADAS and we're discussing deeper relations when it comes to the AD part. – Chief Executive Dennis Nobelius	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Sorry, I am not submitting a quotation, but asking for one. In the film adaptation streamed for one season, a few years ago, Kelsey Grammar played the lead. Toward the end of the last installment, his daughter, when responding to her father's question about business she might want to go into, she said something like show business is the only business. I'd like to get it right. Can you send me the conversation with that response? Don't know if it was taken directly from the book or if it was in the screenplay only. Thank you so much in advance, for any help you might have on this. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon	added by sherrivance 4 years ago
This is almost a verbatim quotation of what critics of immigration said in the early 20th century. – Alan Kraut	Found on CNN 5 years ago
No quotation of the aforementioned article must therefore be considered as a faithful transcription of the words of the Holy Father. – Catholic News Agency	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
What is reported by the author in today’s article is the result of his reconstruction, in which the literal words pronounced by the Pope are not quoted, no quotation of the aforementioned article must therefore be considered as a faithful transcription of the words of the Holy Father. – The Vatican	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. – Joseph Roux	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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. – Arthur Miller	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation. – W.V.O. Quine	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize. – Benjamin Disraeli	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I always have a quotation for everything, it saves original thinking. – Dorothy L. Sayers	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium. – Henry W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In order to find a good quotation in a dictionary of humorous quotations, I didn't leave any stone unturned. – B. J. Gupta	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium. – Henry W. Fowler	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion. – Robert Chapman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. – Dorothy L. Sayers	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I always have a quotation for everything-- it saves original thinking. – Dorothy L. Sayers	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. – Joseph Roux	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Life itself is a quotation. – Jorge Luis Borges	added by anonymous 14 years ago
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. – W. Somerset Maugham	added by anonymous 14 years ago

If they somehow believe that an effort to subjugate' only' -- in quotation marks -- the eastern part of Ukraine and the southern part of Ukraine can succeed, then once again they are profoundly fooling themselves.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Most of us have heard the famous quotation that' injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,' kevin Strickland stands as our own example of what happens when a system set to be just, just gets it terribly wrong.

– Jean Peters

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Good news: Product transfers from China are leading to more quotation requests and order overflow, bad news: Materials are not coming in from China.

– Goh Guek Eng

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Our plan is clear, that we want to be one of those, we have a number of RFQs (request for quotation) at this moment for ADAS and we're discussing deeper relations when it comes to the AD part.

– Chief Executive Dennis Nobelius

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Sorry, I am not submitting a quotation, but asking for one. In the film adaptation streamed for one season, a few years ago, Kelsey Grammar played the lead. Toward the end of the last installment, his daughter, when responding to her father's question about business she might want to go into, she said something like show business is the only business. I'd like to get it right. Can you send me the conversation with that response? Don't know if it was taken directly from the book or if it was in the screenplay only. Thank you so much in advance, for any help you might have on this.

– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

added by sherrivance
4 years ago

This is almost a verbatim quotation of what critics of immigration said in the early 20th century.

– Alan Kraut

Found on CNN
5 years ago

No quotation of the aforementioned article must therefore be considered as a faithful transcription of the words of the Holy Father.

– Catholic News Agency

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

What is reported by the author in today’s article is the result of his reconstruction, in which the literal words pronounced by the Pope are not quoted, no quotation of the aforementioned article must therefore be considered as a faithful transcription of the words of the Holy Father.

– The Vatican

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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

– Joseph Roux

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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.

– Arthur Miller

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

– W.V.O. Quine

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.

– Benjamin Disraeli

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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

– Dorothy L. Sayers

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.

– Henry W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

In order to find a good quotation in a dictionary of humorous quotations, I didn't leave any stone unturned.

– B. J. Gupta