Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.

An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.

We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.

A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.

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.

I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"?

Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations.

Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.

In every endeavour, we need God’s grace.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

Cunning is a short blanket--if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.

You have never looked in the eyes of someone who does not matter to God.

I'm just trying not to get run over. That's number one. Number two is you gotta catch the guy in front of ya.

You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

What's the difference between beautiful and ugly?

With FX in particular, they've been fantastic and were really hands off. I mean, it helps that you've got Ridley Scott on your side.

Incremental change is better than ambitious failure. . . .Success feeds on itself.