These quoting quotes will inspire you. Quoting to repeat the words that someone else has said or written or given someone (the estimated price of a job or service).
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging quoting quotes, quoting sayings, and quoting proverbs.
Best Quoting Quotes
- “quoting reminds me there are other people in the world besides only me. And other thoughts besides mine, and other ways of thinking.” ~ Gregory Maguire
- “Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog, it will not be because you admire them.” ~ Roger Ebert
- “Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.” ~ John Green
- “Head’s all empty, I don’t care,’ he’d sing to me, quoting the Grateful Dead, and I’d force a smile, thinking that my head was never empty and that if it ever was, you could be darn sure I’d care.” ~ Jennifer Weiner
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“You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
- “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)” ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
- “Out on the street, you never know what you’re getting, and suddenly two days later you’re beating yourself in the head with a tennis racket, wearing a towel, quoting Poe. You don’t want that for your kid. You really don’t want that.” ~ Johnny Depp
- “Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
- “It’s OK to quote from your past. But I’m more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.” ~ Robert Plant
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“[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots” ~ Joseph J. Ellis
- “Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren’t they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (quoting an obituary) ‘There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.’ Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
- “Lawful good to lawful evil!” said Simon, pleased. “He’s quoting Dungeons and Dragons,” said Clary. “Ignore him.” ~ Cassandra Clare
- “I had this perverse gravitation towards using a terrible cliché sandwiched in between absurd non-clichés because I thought it gave the cliché a new resonance. It kills me when my lyrics are misquoted, but as long as people are quoting them right, I don’t care what anybody has to say about them.” ~ Paul Banks
- “I find it truly appalling that there are people in the world like you. You are a disgusting, vile, repulsive, repugnant, foul creature. Because of you, I don’t believe in God anymore. No just God would allow someone like you to exist. (Quoting feedback from a reader)” ~ Tucker Max
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“Filmmakers get into trouble when they’re watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time.” ~ James Mangold
- “I don’t know Beyoncé, but I have the impression that she’s sincere, that she really is a feminist and wanted to put the word out there to make it a good word in a big way by putting it in big letters on the stage, and especially because she was quoting the African novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who said, “We should all be feminists.” She’s a very accomplished and important novelist.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing the person said.” ~ Neil Gaiman
- “I’m kind of quoting Thurston [Moore] and Kim [Gordon] in saying that about not being great with addicts, because they are the ones who said it to me.” ~ Michael Stipe
- “I’m getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan.” ~ Michael Reagan
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“People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me” ~ Jean-Luc Godard
- “We can preach the Gospel all day long, but that won’t win souls. That won’t win the hearts of the people. We can talk, try to theorize, theologize, reason, argue, debate, and spend time trying to prove that Jesus lived, but that won’t win a heart. How often do we see the religious mindset that believes that the more Scripture quoting, the more yelling, the more hell fire and brimstone preaching, the greater the chance to win someone over for the Kingdom? Likewise, how often do we see people sitting or standing there listening in stone-cold silence or indifference?” ~ Todd Bentley
- “When there is this giant narrative, when there is a singular story out there like there is right now about the Russians hacking the election so that Donald Trump would win – when the media is pumping it and the Democrats are quoting the media and the media’s quoting the Democrats and it’s just like a giant blanket thrown all over the country – don’t believe the story. It’s made up! It is a script. I call the daily soap opera.” ~ Rush Limbaugh
- “I’ve been quoting the book [on Peter Sutcliffe] constantly in rehearsals. Some members of the cast have stated their disapproval that it should even have been written. Some of the women have expressed more – disgust and anger. What are they saying? They’d prefer not to know, not to understand? They’d prefer certain areas of life to be censored? Isn’t that partly what breeds the Sutcliffes and the Nilsens?” ~ Antony Sher
- “My point is Trump is Trump. He’s the same guy wherever he is. But the reporting on him on the Middle East trip is nowhere near like the reporting on Trump when he’s in Washington. There aren’t any leaks. For example, we haven’t yet seen a story quoting unnamed sources in the Saudi government saying that the king was profoundly embarrassed when Trump asked if there was a McDonald’s nearby.” ~ Rush Limbaugh , Quoting quotes with an example
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“The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “How could believers, people who regard themselves as true Muslims, get on those planes, quoting the words of God delivered through the Prophet to themselves, knowing they were going to kill innocent people? They saw the other passengers on the plane. They could see the woman with her little daughter. They saw people making phone calls to their wives or their husbands. They knew who they were killing.” ~ Robert Fisk
- “All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson.” ~ James Russell Lowell
- “Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who’d listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God’s little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.” ~ Joy Fielding
- “The way I feel about Crunk Feminists. Here you have a bunch of bloggers who are not even quoting any feminists’ works who are telling me what I can do better when I’ve been doing this as my life’s work while y’all still in college! What are you talking about? And their criticism was of the idea that we should approach people like Rick Ross and Lil’ Wayne with love when they have lyrics that we don’t like, as opposed to approaching them with hate. That’s their issue: How dare I say I approach Rick Ross with love!” ~ Talib Kweli
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“Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons!” ~ Pompey
- “Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.” ~ H. G. Wells
- “…when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he’s scraping the barrel.” ~ Andrew Sullivan
- “The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you’re quoting yourself when in fact you’re merely repeating yourself.” ~ Larry Wall
- “My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,—it is a plaything.” ~ Thomas Love Peacock
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“The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.” ~ Ihab Hassan
- “I’m horrible at quoting movies! Even my very favorites are not easily recalled or programmed to memory. When people start movie quoting around me, I’m that person who just smiles and then looks up the reference later.” ~ Ashley Rickards
- “There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.” ~ Mortimer Adler
- “You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging.” ~ Walter F. Mondale
- “It`s the nature of cable news that we [TV hosts] do a lot of clipping and quoting of other broadcasts and outlets, sometimes to make a narrative point, sometimes to make a political one, and sometimes just to make a joke.” ~ Chris Hayes
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“Brush up your Shakespeare, Start quoting him now, Brush up your Shakespeare And the women you will wow.” ~ Cole Porter
- “Well, I’m just quoting you when you [Donald Trump] were asked about a potential nuclear competition in Asia, you said, you know, go ahead, enjoy yourselves, folks.” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “The primary function of the government is – and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution – ‘to spew out paper.'” ~ Dave Barry
- “Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.” ~ Susie Bright
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“I’m quoting Margaret Thatcher. I quote her frequently.” ~ Carly Fiorina
- “Quoting Demosthenes, ‘For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.’ I would rather make money playing a piano in a whorehouse than arguing that no cost is incurred when employees are paid in stock options instead of cash. I am not kidding.” ~ Charlie Munger
- “Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance.” ~ Fady Joudah
- “I am a musicologist, a doctor of music. Therefore I listened to, studied and analysed a lot of music. I also enjoy metaphors, the art of quoting and of cycles.” ~ James Horner
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“Jesus died as He had lived-praying, forgiving, loving, sacrificing, trusting, quoting Scripture. If I die as I have lived, how will I die?” ~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
- “I belong to a bowling team with black and Latino coworkers. And when we get together and we talk about politics – I’m almost quoting him – he said, we don’t talk about Black Lives Matters. We talk about what matters to our families. We talk about jobs, and we talk about the fate of the country. That is America, and you can reach those people.” ~ Steve Inskeep
- “I noticed some time ago that neither of the candidates are quoting the founders. If they are, they’re doing it so rarely that I haven’t noticed, or enough to be negligible. Certainly, neither is invoking the image of [George] Washington at Valley Forge or the Shining City Upon a Hill. In addition to this being true for John McCain and Barack Obama, it was true for Hillary Clinton as well.” ~ Paul Kengor
- “Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.” ~ Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
- “Winston, I don’t know what I want, but I want you to go out and get it. When I see it, I’ll know if it’s what I thought I wanted. (Quoting a photography client.)” ~ O. Winston Link
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“Nothing like quoting Silence of the Lambs for people to question what kind of disability you have.” ~ Zach Anner
- “With the risk of being accused of quoting the wrong person I can say that [Adolf] Hitler wrote that “the more the press attacks a person the closer he is to us”.” ~ Varg Vikernes
- “Quoting, like smoking, … is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then … I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.” ~ Carolyn Heilbrun
- “One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.” ~ Marcel Proust
- “When I’m talking to people, I find myself quoting the three organizing rules of Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter was initiated by three young women, and too few people know that. But, anyway, the first one is lead with love. The second is low ego, high impact. The third is move with the speed of trust. I must say those make me feel very hopeful for the future.” ~ Gloria Steinem
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“Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.” ~ Carolyn Heilbrun
- “Maria Edgeworth grumbled against vandals who ruined immortal works by quoting the life out of them. “How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.” Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden, scissored, patched, and frayed.” ~ Willis Regier
- “We had pastors testifying in favor of gun control. And they were quoting the Bible, too, for it. And there were no pastors on the other side testifying against gun control… I had to literally open up my Bible and read scripture to these pastors in a hearing in Olympia. A politician had to read scripture to pastors.” ~ Matt Shea
- “I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.” ~ Laurell K. Hamilton
- “The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen.” ~ Daniel Handler
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“Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25)” ~ Stephen Levine
- “we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. (quoting Joel Salatin)” ~ Michael Pollan
- “If you’re bumming out, you’re not gonna get to the top, so as long as we’re up here we might as well make a point of grooving. (Quoting Scott Fischer)” ~ Jon Krakauer
