Sentence examples for To quotation from inspiring English sources
noun
A fragment of a human expression that is repeated exactly by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc., may be quoted.
- "Where they burn books, they will also burn people" is a famous quotation from Heinrich Heine.
From now on, anything coming out of President Trump's mouth can be conveniently reinterpreted thanks to quotation marks.
But in circus, you tell the truth.' " In describing his working aesthetic, Mr. De Ritis resorts to quotation.
The sharp jump-cutting, short sentence to short sentence, quotation to quotation, creates the same effect that Burroughs creates in his novels.
Furnivall, taking up the reins, proved to be a poor motivator; volunteer readers tasked with copying passages from books on to quotation slips drifted away, and some slips went missing.
But Ruders' score lacks a distinctive flavour, veering between idioms and underpinning characterless vocal lines with overloaded and overheated orchestral writing that resorts too often to quotation (Amazing Grace, and Bach's Bist du bei mir are heavily exploited).
But, like Sonny Rollins (whom he often resembled), Bob Berg's unaccompanied soliloquies and intros could be among his most remarkable achievements - a little drier and less inclined to quotation and irony than Rollins, but almost as full of heart and surprise.
Triple quotes to quote quotations of quotations.
Double quotes are used to quote quotations.
There is little that screams the words "damage" and "control" like a typically news-media-shy baseball owner suddenly making the rounds of sports talk radio and opening his door to quotation-hungry reporters.
Now that it's become clear that many journalists covering politics and government agree to quotation-approval as a condition of access, it's tough not to see the pageant of democracy as just that: a carefully constructed performance meant to showcase the participants in the best light.
In the case of Angelou, who became associated with the quote largely thanks to quotation-aggregation sites and through social sharing online, the misattribution made the leap from the Web and to the world stage: Slate points out that Angelou was incorrectly credited as the author of the phrase during an introduction to her remarks at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
