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 wood for a temple does not come from a single tree.
    Chinese proverb.

    In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.
    Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)

    Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.
    Bible: New Testament, Mark 10:18.

    Jesus.