Sentence examples for is given to quoting from inspiring English sources

He reads Kant and Nietzsche and Heidegger and is given to quoting Hans Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur, and Michel Foucault.

His dorm-room bookshelf holds no less than four Reagan biographies, from which he is given to quoting, as if from Scripture.

Richard Hoggart was once described as "today's Ruskin" and is given to quoting Ruskin's maxim that "the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way".

He cannot get over the teeming life, the sheer talent he finds down the end of virtually every corridor, with the result that he is given to quoting the great Penelope Fitzgerald, whose novel Human Voices is about life at the BBC during the war.

It is not simply that Carr devotes several pages to the history of his imaginary fenland village, its spoof entry in Pevsner's Buildings of England, its "peasant poet" Thomas Dadds, on whose grave the local children strew flowers on the anniversary of his birth, and whose mournful verse Gidner is given to quoting.

Benyamina, who is thirty-seven, has a cataract of long curly hair, the chiselled cheekbones of a terracotta warrior, and the air of a pugilist; she is given to quoting the Martinican writer and politician Aimé Césaire: "Independence isn't given; you have to take it".

He also wrote poetry and was given to quoting the ancient Greeks and Flaubert and Churchill.

He in fact adored Arthur Conan Doyle, and was given to quoting long passages from the Holmes tales verbatim at parties, and to borrowing bits and ideas for his poems.

She's given to quoting Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous line about the long, justice-bent arc of the moral universe.

(You can see why my stance on TBTF hardly endears me to audiences on Wall Street. I am given to quoting Winston Churchill in response.

When "Soap" first went on the air, the couple lived in chic Laurel Canyon and Guillaume was given to quotes such as, "You gain a measure of respectability when you live beyond your means". But now they share a modest house, sans swimming pool, in Studio City, and have been featured as an "in" couple by People and Essence magazines.