Sentence examples for good to quote from inspiring English sources

It was good to quote the words of the inmates and the guards taken from government wiretaps, he said, but I should also go out and interview people who had done time inside B.C.D.C.

The 1688 Revolution did not affirm, like the French Revolution, that power can revert to the people, who have a right to "erect a new form…as they think good" (to quote Locke's Second Treatise) (Pocock 1989: 207).

Good people to quote in speeches: Ronald Reagan, Grover Norquist, Milton Friedman.

What is poetry good for?To quote my friend Derek Ma­hon, they keep the colours new.

It was too good not to quote, and so you'll find the quote in this week's magazine, in an article about the evolution of hip-hop lyrics.

I saw enough to know that my fish did not go gently into that good night, to quote Dylan Thomas (though I should say his death was certainly Dylan Thomas-esque).

One might have reason to doubt that the conversation took place quite as described, but the passage is among those which are considered too good not to quote, because it supports the "Pop changed everything" theory of Warhol's art.

While it's certainly possible that the WSJ decided "about $1,000" was a good price to quote from analysts, there are at least as many people out there suggesting the device would be more like $600 $80000 — a price that would be much more attractive to consumers.

There are many good things to quote, such as the first verse of Jabberwocky, songs that have been mostly forgotten, ("I am I, Don Quixote, the Man of La Mancha") or make up some of your own ("I would like a dollar so I can buy a fish!").

They put on good shows, they draw good crowds, but, to quote Bertolt Brecht's libretto for "Mahagonny," something is lacking.

Like many westerns, the movie is moralistic at heart: the character of the men is tested by their sudden good fortune and, to quote from the film's director John Huston, they "stew in their own juice".