Quotables, which soft launched in August, is aiming to become the destination for finding and sharing quotations online by embracing social media and crowdsourcing to organise its, largely, user generated database of quotes and to weed out misquotations and misattributions.
He has shared inspirational quotations.
Visitors are invited to write a prayer from any faith tradition, or a message of peace and hope, and visitors have shared inspiring quotations by Abraham Lincoln and Albert Camus among others.
Karl Marx has thirteen quotations (plus eight for which he shares credit with Friedrich Engels, who, interestingly, never felt it necessary to say "Je ne suis pas engeliste") in the compendious, enjoyable, and expensive "Yale Book of Quotations" (Yale; $50), edited by Fred Shapiro.
Mora shared a quotation from a friend, the basketball Hall of Famer Bill Russell, with the team.
I once shared this quotation with a class of seventh graders, and it didn't seem to require any explanation.
Mr. Boulben shared a quotation from Conrad Hilton, the lodging mogul who, coincidentally, figured in the plotline of episodes of "Mad Men," the television series about the ad business.
–What concerns does this quotation raise with you?" Encourage groups to share their quotations and responses.
But the former mayor asked a reporter to wait a moment so he could share a quotation he had found in "The Great Gatsby," which he called appropriate for the occasion.
As he greeted the audience at the Empty Bottle on Sunday, Mr. Balter noted that the date, Dec. 16, was Beethoven's birthday, and shared a fitting quotation: "Beethoven said that 'the foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human hearts and souls.' " Artists involved in new music, he asserted, are at the core very much alike, despite stylistic differences.
