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Quotable


Definition:

  • (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.

Quote


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat, or adduce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; as, to quote a passage from Homer.
  • (v. t.) To cite a passage from; to name as the authority for a statement or an opinion; as, to quote Shakespeare.
  • (v. t.) To name the current price of.
  • (v. t.) To notice; to observe; to examine.
  • (v. t.) To set down, as in writing.
  • (n.) A note upon an author.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
  • (2) Those sort of year-to-year comparisons can be helpful to visualise changes in the market landscape, but in fast-changing markets it's not enough just to quote a single number.
  • (3) In a recent book about the life of Rudolf Höss who was the commandant at Auschwitz, he is quoted as saying of himself that he was not a murderer, he was “just in charge of an extermination camp”.
  • (4) Quoting the BBC-commissioned survey of more than 2,000 adults, Lyons said they had been given six choices what to do with the licence fee surplus once digital switchover was complete.
  • (5) Her success has not been universally welcomed - anonymous colleagues are occasionally quoted in the media portraying her as "ambitious" and "bossy".
  • (6) Nickname: SuperSarko the Omnipresident Quote: "What made me who I am now is the sum of all the humiliations suffered during childhood."
  • (7) Another source inside the centre, quoted earlier on the Detained Voices blog, said detainees had banged on their doors throughout the lockdown.
  • (8) Kerry presented Lavrov with a dossier of quotes from Russian media that “do not help improve Russian-American relations”, according to Russian television.
  • (9) This has "nothing to do with any of our businesses," Koch spokespeople were quoted as telling the congressman's staff members in a May 20 letter that Waxman sent to Reps. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the Energy and Commerce Committee chair, and Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), who chairs the Energy and Power Subcommittee.
  • (10) Mark Rasch, a cyber crime expert quoted by the FT, meanwhile said recent events have been “a serious and devastating attack to [Sony’s] reputation and image”, and his opinion is played out by a new YouGov poll into the public perception of Sony’s brand.
  • (11) "We are probably steering towards Russia turning off its gas provision," he was quoted as saying.
  • (12) However, LaBoeuf's subsequent apologies were themselves discovered to have been copied from other sources ; his quoting of Cantona's lines are entirely true to form.
  • (13) At the end of the article the Department for Work and Pensions is quoted as saying that it’s “misleading to link food bank use to benefit delays and sanctions”.
  • (14) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
  • (15) A 3 week immunization schedule is suggested where BCG and C. parvum are used as immunotherapeutic agents, in the doses quoted.
  • (16) A member of the P2PFA ThinCats ThinCats logo Date launched January 2011 Quoted returns Lenders can earn "between 6% and 13%".
  • (17) BUSH ON IRAQ TONIGHT: Mr President, if I can move on to the question of Iraq, when we last spoke before the Iraq war, I asked you about Saddam Hussein and you said this, and I quote: "He harbours and develops weapons of mass destruction, make no mistake about it."
  • (18) These concentrations were less than the routinely used half-saturated solutions and different from the sometimes quoted one-third-saturated solutions.
  • (19) US Banker magazine, which ranked her the fifth most powerful female banker in the US, has quoted her as admitting to preaching a work-life balance but admitting: "I don't have much of one myself."
  • (20) "Strong voices from across the Republican spectrum agree with the fundamental point – the nation, and the GOP, need to act on immigration.” • This article was amended on 31 January 2014 to correct the attribution of a quote.

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