What's the difference between quotable and repeatable?
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.