Sentence examples for quotation the from inspiring English sources

As a Knick, he had uttered his famous quotation, "The ship be sinking".

Tynan had unearthed this Stoppard quotation: " 'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything".

If, however, for context or as part of a direct quotation, the word should be used in full, without asterisks.

A storehouse of antiquarian learning, it preserves by quotation the work of other authors that has not survived elsewhere.

Except for some remarks that were not intended for quotation, the full interview is online at nytimes.com.

Any ideological appropriation of Wagner, whether on the right, left, or center, requires selective quotation; the contradictions of the man are innumerable.

But then Strauss's final self-quotation, the transfiguration theme from "Death and Transfiguration" (that first piece of his that I ever heard), sounds out lovingly, and the two larks ascend ever higher.

The legitimacy of the Oscar Wilde quotation -- "the ordinary man away from home giving advice" -- may be a case in point.

(The sleaziest part of the sleazy RNC ad was to use Obama's clear quotation - "The people of Berlin have spoken" - as if it were written by Obama in 2008, not Reuter in 1948).

But he was furious about a quotation -- "the wine of Scotland".

You see Josephine Baker's great quotation -- "the white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks" -- borne out by a letter from Bix Beiderbecke to his brother, which buzzes in high teenage naivete about wanting to meet "real jazz niggers".