1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Quotation and Originality
Source: Prose and Poetry
“The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter — but it's a damn good book anyway.”
Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist
Review blurb for the first edition of The Quantum Universe http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521564573 (1987)
“Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.”
Samuel Johnson book A Dictionary of the English Language
Preface http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/preface.html <br class="br">A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Source: My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 9 (Education At Bangalore).
“People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
“He was a learned man, of immense reading, but is much blamed for his unfaithfull quotations.”
John Aubrey book Brief Lives
"William Prynne"
Brief Lives
“"Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.”
Willard van Orman Quine (1908–2000) American philosopher and logician
Quine's paradox, in "The Ways of Paradox" in "The Ways of Paradox and other Essays" (1976)
1970s
“Chairman Mao was the first in the world to use Twitter. All his quotations are within 140 words.”
Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist
2000-09, The Bold and the Beautiful, 2009
“Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
May 8, 1781
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
Quoted in Cool Memories (1987) by Jean Baudrillard, (trans. 1990) Ch. 5; heard by Baudrillard at a lecture given in Paris.
