As Nelson embarks on her intellectual and emotional journey, Harry also goes on various excursions in order to become the person he is now, whom Nelson describes, quoting a character from Harry's 2001 film, "By Hook or By Crook," as neither male nor female but "a special — a two for one".
The same editor might ask whether it's quite right for one of the characters in The Sandman to be described – quote – "holding her iPod to one ear".
As the year was ending, Ms. Rodham was working on a 92-page honors dissertation on Saul Alinsky, the antipoverty crusader and community activist, whom she described (quoting from The Economist) as "that rare specimen, the successful radical".
You describe quotes as "mini-instruction manuals for the soul".
The exact path the pussycat describes, to quote Rich from Atlanta, is "a quarter of a circle whose radius is 1/2 the length of the ladder".
The catalogue contains a fair number of pieces that could be described — to quote from a Britten essay by Albert Innaurato — as "well-made twaddle".
There are reasons this place has often been described, to quote Thackeray, as a land of "fear and blood, crime and punishment".
To bolster the contention, he used an annual budget hearing last week to, as he described it, quote the Supreme Court justice Byron White declaring "I know it when I see it" about pornography.
Charles Van Doren describes a Shakespeare quote that his father gave him as a consolation after the quiz-show scandal was revealed ("All the Answers," July 28th).
This quote describes the events leading to the death of a 38-year-old woman whose proximal cause of death was determined to be cancer.
