The book reads as if he wrote it with a collection of quotations in his lap.
The Cultural Revolution's official handbook was the Little Red Book, a pocket-sized collection of quotations from Mao that offered a design for Red Guard life.
His reading of the Bible and of the Fathers of the Church led him to make a collection of quotations that seemed to represent inconsistencies of teaching by the Christian church.
Tucked among these was a copy of a collection of quotations from Wharton's works, edited by Louis Auchincloss and recently published by the Mount in an attractive paperback edition.
The result was a massive and motley three-volume collection of quotations, unacknowledged citations, and personal observations entitled A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America (1787).
If you were going to put together a collection of quotations by Retha Powers, using things that she said at the Schomburg Center over the course of the afternoon, you would be hard-pressed to pare it down to the most representative quotations.
He had gathered together an alarming collection of quotations to prove it, too: Fox complaining about the useful laws that long ago defined the secular state; Fox criticizing the lay character of public education; Fox saying he wants the schools to teach religious values, meaning Catholic values.
Like Womens Speaking, this work is more than just a collection of quotations from the Bible: it is intended to show that, following Christ's restitution of humanity, women once again share a spiritual equality with men.
— Jenna Wortham Longhand v. Cut and Paste THEATLANTIC.COM | Looking at commonplace books — collections of quotations copied by hand — as the Tumblrs of an earlier era.
They were collections of quotations, observations, clippings, proverbs, poems, personal asides and anything else that someone found worthy of saving for future reference or sharing with friends.
