Single Quotation Mark

Famous quotes containing the words quotation mark, single, quotation and/or mark:

    With wonderful art he grinds into paint for his picture all his moods and experiences, so that all his forces may be brought to the encounter. Apparently writing without a particular design or responsibility, setting down his soliloquies from time to time, taking advantage of all his humors, when at length the hour comes to declare himself, he puts down in plain English, without quotation marks, what he, Thomas Carlyle, is ready to defend in the face of the world.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The pure serene of memory in one man,—
    A ripple widening from a single stone
    Winding around the waters of the world.
    Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

    It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman’s brain!
    Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)

    You faithless generation...
    Bible: New Testament, Mark 9:19.

    Jesus.