Questions tagged [quote-source]
Questions seeking to identify the source of a quote. If possible, include the exact quote whose origin you're seeking, or describe it as closely as you can. (For questions seeking to identify a entire story or work of literature from some remembered details, use the [identification-request] tag instead.)
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Who is "Eurip." and where is this Greek extract from?
Eἰς τὸν λειμῶνα καθίσας,
ἔδρεπεν ἕτερον ἐφ' ἑτέρῳ
αἰρόμενος ἄγρευμ' ἀνθέων
ἁδομένᾳ ψυχᾷ
[Eurip. frag. 754.] [sic]
['He sat in the meadow and plucked with glad heart the spoil of the flowers, gathering ...
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Who is the author of this quote about saying the right words on a mountaintop and changing the world?
I have a recollection of a quote I thought came from Heinrich Heine. My recollection of the quote is something like this:
If you go up to the mountaintop and say the right words, the whole world ...
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Who wrote a specific poem in the movie 'Dead Poets Society'?
Who wrote "Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams…And I'll show you a happy man." ?
It was spoken by George McAllister (=the character name of the Latin teacher "the Realist" in Dead Poets ...
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On what occasion did Shelley say "Keats was a Greek"?
Once Shelley said, "Keats was a Greek." What was the context? Whom did he say this to?
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Who is the author of the quote: "We build too many walls and not enough bridges"?
I narrowed my search to two Newton: Joseph Fort Newton and Isaac Newton. I think the first one did it. I see four solutions:
Joseph Fort Newton wrote it.
Isaac Newton wrote it.
Both wrote it (maybe ...
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What is the quote "We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe" trying to convey?
We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.
I need help with understanding this quote and what it's trying to convey.
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Trying to find a quote: Salt on top of the mountain, instead of snow
Google has failed me. I am trying to recall a quote I read once, which goes something like this: "I have reached the mountain peak I saw in my youth, but it is not snow here; it is only salt." Meaning,...
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Looking for a quote: "It may be true that every man has his price but there is not enough gold in the world to pay mine"
I'm looking for a quote that goes along the lines of
"It may be true that every man has his price but there is not enough gold in the world to pay mine"
I'm looking for the exact quote and who ...
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Origins of quote: "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
I've grown up loving the quote "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup." and I've been searching around to find out where it came from (with only a ...
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Where do I find Edmund Wilson's quote "No two persons ever read the same book?"
The internet seems crazy about this quote, but nobody reports a reliable source.
Where was it originally written or spoken?
(I.e., which book, interview, or essay?)
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Did Sarojini Naidu say this: When the house is on fire, the poet should stop singing...?
Did Sarojini Naidu say something about this:
"When the house is on fire, the poet should stop singing, and get the
buckets to put out the fire."
I got this from a FB post. But I want to find out ...
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Nicanor Parra line: "Nothing important is learned from books. (I read this in a book.)"
This is one of Parra's "anti-poems" but I can't recall the exact wording, or which book it appeared in, and can't seem to find it online. The poem says something along the lines of
Nothing ...
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Who first said this quote about how we only sleep safely because "rough men stand ready" to fight on our behalf?
One of my favorite quotes is Churchill's
"We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us."
But recently I found out that Orwell was attributed ...
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Where does this Federico Garcia Lorca quote come from? Is it a fake?
The quote is the following:
Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
I ran into this quote in a book named Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems ...
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Where was the phrase "behind the wind" first used?
In Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years, chapter 4 ("The World Behind the Wind"), the second-to-last sentence:
On the evidence of the events of the fifteenth century, in the world east ...
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In which book did Poirot find a four-foot long clue?
In one of the Poirot books he mentions that though clues are often small he once found a four-foot long one.
Unfortunately I can't remember in which book he mentions this.
Does anyone know which ...
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What did Charles Dickens say about genius and pain?
While reading Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale, I came across this quote (emphasis mine):
...Charles Dickens in an after-dinner speech had stated that genius was an infinite capacity for taking ...
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Who said that Allingham "polished her prose until it shone over-bright," and where?
Somebody read to me from a book about Allingham long ago that she would "polish her prose until it shone over-bright" and then dictate it to her husband to reduce it to a more readable vernacular. I ...
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