Sentence examples for altered quote from inspiring English sources

When I first began looking into this alleged Madison quote, I did what I always do when looking into what appears to be a fabricated or altered quote in a David Barton book - I looked to see what his sources were so that I could check them for myself.

In an article for Tablet magazine, self-described Dylan obsessive Michael Moynihan accused Lehrer of falsifying and altering quotes from Dylan in a chapter of Imagine.

Do not alter quotes that use "I" or "you," however.

Well, now Twitter has altered its "quote tweet" function, making it much more substantial.

"It might be an option," he said when asked whether he would consider legal action against the DND users who altered his quote.

If The Denver Post had changed or altered a quote, the political significance would not be the same, and a correction would surely have been written.

So whereas I would never normally alter a quote, with Prescott I have had to carve a path through the thickets of verbiage to convey what I hope was his meaning.

(He doesn't actually say "dodobrain"; I had to alter the quote, in keeping with The Times's standards of crude language thereby violating another Times rule that quotations cannot be changed.

The danger here, particularly if you don't alter the quote much, is that you'll unwittingly change it back to the quotation later, in revision.

Toward the end of this volume, Mr. Alter quotes Mr. Obama telling an aide that if he lost, his presidency would be "a footnote" and that "all of the progress we made in the first four years would be reversed"; if he won, his first-term achievements would be cemented for a generation and he could move ahead on promises sidetracked by the recession.

In support of this view, Alters quoted various instances in which scientists have used the word "believe" and its cognates in the same way in which others may use various forms of the word "accept," and he bolstered his argument with the assertion that students would not likely distinguish between these two terms (Alters [1997]).