Sentence examples for popular quotation from inspiring English sources

Fred Shapiro, the editor of "The Yale Book of Quotations," published in 2006, prides himself in the high success rate he has had chasing down the origins of a popular quotation.

Selection among mouse trap patents may be stiffer than among patents in general due to a popular quotation attributed to one of Ralph Waldo Emerson's spring 1871 lectures (Adams 1947): "If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse trap, than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door".

Many popular quotations these days are related to the computer culture, Mr. Shapiro said.

The same linguistic features turn up in the most popular quotations.

It is a mystery to me how a claim so simultaneously insufferable and absurd ever entered the canon of popular quotations.

Among these competing misattributions, Angelou's won out over the years, perhaps in part because of her prominence — popular quotations are frequently attributed to people more famous than those who actually said them — but also, presumably, because it seemed the most plausible.

Titanic catchphrase "I'm the king of the world!" became one of the film industry's more popular quotations.

Pinafore became a source of popular quotations on both sides of the Atlantic, such as the exchange: :"What, never?" :"No, never!" :"What, never?" :"Well, hardly ever!" In February 1879, Pinafore resumed operations at the Opera Comique.

The most popular Bible quotation cited against abortion was Jeremiah 1 4 5.

This demonstrates "that the quotation of popular culture was not the sign of intelligence suspended but rather the shape of thought".

In the 16th century, composers created parody Masses built around quotations from popular (and usually secular) songs instead of using plainchant, as earlier composers had done.