(a.) Capable or worthy of being quoted; as, a quotable writer; a quotable sentence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nonetheless, Ben Shephard has exploded into some very quotable fury.
(2) It accuses Roberts’s lawyers of including the names of prominent individuals, which it says were irrelevant to the lawsuit, in an attempt to generate publicity with a motion that “simply proffers various salacious allegations as quotable tabloid fodder”.
(3) A visible result of the 20-year old applied ethics movement is the use of moral philosophers as quotable newspaper sources.
(4) Indeed, Graham won over audiences with lines like: “Bernie Sanders went to the Soviet Union on his honeymoon and he never came back.” And he charmed the television masses with foreign policy quotables like: “The party’s over for all the dictators.
(5) And whatever jibe a hack would like to make, there's always some obliging sniper on Twitter to offer a quotable chunk of unpleasantness.
(6) Dialogue Young Guns does a generally enjoyable line in cheesy, quotable, tough-guy speak.
(7) A "top comment" on his work is: "This is more quotable than Anchorman ".
(8) She herself offered frequent quotable barbs, once describing the expressway at a Board of Estimate meeting as a “monstrous and useless folly”.
(9) Twain was always a barometric writer, with a knack for registering contemporary social pressures in sharp-eyed aphorisms that weren't merely quotable, but often well ahead of their time.
(10) Football never was more important than life and death, of course; Bill Shankly meant that as a quotable quip about the British passion for it, before the horrors of Bradford, Heysel and Hillsborough cast the remark in a dark perspective.
(11) It's not that Miley Cyrus, Pete Doherty and Lindsay Lohan aren't talented people – they really are – but when they go off the rails and hole up getting blitzed out of their brains, none of them do it quite so quotably.
(12) There was, of course, the magnificent ruckus at the US embassy in Ankara, and the gloriously quotable lecture Pinter gave on torture.
(13) It should be abandoned as a quotable measurement of male fertility.
(14) Enrique Peñalosa, Bogotá's former mayor, has proven eminently quotable on the matter of transport as a reflection of metropolitan character and building the means of transport as a way of defining that character.
(15) Others find Montgomerie's ever-quotable outspokenness sly or baffling or self-indulgent, given the already-buffeted government.
(16) It accuses Roberts’s lawyers of including names of prominent individuals, which it says are irrelevant to the lawsuit, of seeking to generate publicity with a motion that “simply proffers various salacious allegations as quotable tabloid fodder”.
(17) But perhaps most irritatingly of all for those gathered by the Mersey is what Dr Peter Carter, the union's always-quotable chief executive, sees as Hunt's "overblown rhetoric" in his "repeated criticism" of nurses and NHS care.
(18) He could only say, and this is thought quotable, because there is nothing else to print from his testament: "Because it's there."
(19) Never boring, often controversial and always quotable, Wilshaw will be remembered for his courage in telling truth to power.
(20) But you can bet your bottom dollar that any wilfully dumb party rapper of today – say, DJ Khaled – will be able to recite reams of their lyrics, and that any rap fan asked for their favourite lines is as likely to pull out one of Phife’s untold “quotables” as they are Tip’s laid-back poetics.
Quotation
Definition:
(n.) The act of quoting or citing.
(n.) That which is quoted or cited; a part of a book or writing named, repeated, or adduced as evidence or illustration.
(n.) The naming or publishing of the current price of stocks, bonds, or any commodity; also the price named.
(n.) Quota; share.
(n.) A piece of hollow type metal, lower than type, and measuring two or more pica ems in length and breadth, used in the blank spaces at the beginning and end of chapters, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Another lawsuit obliged Ian Hamilton to rewrite large sections of an unauthorised biography published in 1988 – the supreme court ruled that quotations from Salinger's letters infringed his copyright.
(2) Based on quotations from Freuds writings on the actual neurosis and quotations from Schultz-Henckes writings on neurasthenia and nervousness, the psychodynamics of psychovegetative disturbances are demonstrated through an examplatory case.
(3) But with quotation now limited to fair dealing most of this will have to go, and the new version will be much more biographical.
(4) We have a few quotations from a compendium of jokes of the first emperor Augustus (not all brilliant: "When a man was nervously giving him a petition and kept putting his hand out, then drawing it back, the emperor quipped, 'Hey, do you think you're giving a penny to an elephant?'").
(5) Diesendorf employed an outdated view of how fluoride exerts its anticariogenic action and took a number of quotations out of context.
(6) 7.40pm BST If you were wondering why Seagulls no like Eagles and vice versa And why Dom the Glazier put the word 'rival' in quotation marks, here is my colleague Simon Burton's investigation .
(7) Rubens is not a solitary source of painterly genius, but a gregarious master who never hid his own quotations of earlier art.
(8) The phrase "time to water the tree of liberty" - a reference to a famous quotation from Thomas Jefferson, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" - is also frequently used by a right wing group called Stormfront , motto White Pride World Wide.
(9) In a speech littered with quotations from Winston Churchill to Pope Francis and Oscar Wilde, Lagarde said international progress to reform the financial system was too slow.
(10) Fifty randomly selected references from a single monthly issue of The American Journal of Surgery; Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics; and Surgery were evaluated for citation and quotation errors.
(11) As in a mosque, worshippers remove their shoes before entering the historic building, where biblical quotations are emblazoned on the walls in English, Hebrew and Persian scripts.
(12) The meaning of the quotation "I do not give any abortive remedy" is obscure since in other contexts Hippocrates distinguished between abortive and contraceptive drugs and also abortive instruments.
(13) In a move that sparked laughter and jeers in the Commons, the shadow chancellor pulled out a copy of the Quotations from Chairman Mao to make a point about George Osborne’s attempts to sell off state assets to the Chinese.
(14) Studies conducted into the activity of adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) in homogenate of several tissues of sheep and against the background of pH 7.5 (tris-HCl buffer) have shown highest enzyme activity to develop in renal cortex and cerebral cortex followed, in declining order of quotation, by liver, myocardium, and mucous membrane of small intestine.
(15) Through examples taken from specialized medical journals, we follow their way from sporadic literary quotations supporting their own texts to attempted literary creations on scientific and moral issues.
(16) In this study, randomly selected quotations from Israeli medical journals were examined.
(17) His talk bristles with quotations from writers he has ingested, rather as, in his words, the Nobel laureate from Aracataca "hired and fired" Faulkner and Hemingway.
(18) A brief discussion of Beethoven's musical style prior to and after his illness is based on quotations from three eminent musical scholars.
(19) Bookcases line the property: there are tomes on Hitler, Disney, Titanic, J Edgar Hoover, proverbs, quotations, fables, grammar, the Beach Boys, top 40 pop hits, baseball, Charlie Chaplin – any and every topic.
(20) Gibran's epithet is one of many quotations on the Guardian Witness website , where people are sharing good advice for the women in their life ahead of International Women's Day on Saturday.