Famous quotes containing the words quotation marks, closing, quotation and/or marks:
“In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.”
—Arthur Miller (b. 1915)
“Our two eyes do not make our lot better; one serves us to see the good things, the other the evils of life. A lot of people have the bad habit of closing the first, and very few close the second.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (16941778)
“Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of actionthe ability to pass directly from thought to action.”
—Eric Hoffer (19021983)