Quotation Search Service
Quotations? We’ve Got a Million of Them – and Lots More!
Where do you go when you’re looking for just the right quotation for that article you’re writing? Or the speech you’re planning? Or do you need lots of quotes on a particular topic? Whatever the case, chances are you’ll begin with an Internet search. Enter the word “quotations” on one of the popular search engines, as we did recently, and you’ll find more than two million sites listed!
Two million sites! Well, if you have lots of time on your hands and can check out about 300 sites a day – every day – you’ll be done by about 2020. The only trouble is that, by then, there’ll probably be a couple of million more sites to check.
A Better Way
If Web surfing isn’t among your favorite sports, let us help. We own what is surely one of the rarest and most extensive collections in existence. Our library includes more than 400 published volumes containing nearly 1.5 million quotes, plus thousands of other quotes collected from a wide variety of sources. The oldest volume in our collection was published in 1874, which is one of more than a dozen we have from the 19th century. Ten others are at least 75 years old, and one or more was published in almost every year since 1929.
Admittedly, you can’t access our collection on our site, but we can usually find what you need pretty quickly, and at a very reasonable price. For example, one client recently requested about 25 quotes on a specific topic, which we provided the same day. Another asked for a quote “that could be used for a Ph.D. study group presentation.” To give her a choice, we sent along a half-dozen quotes the same day.
The next day she reported: “the first one is right along the lines we’re looking for,” and asked for a few others “that might focus on learning, achievement, or mastering difficult challenges.” To her delight, we again quickly provided exactly what she wanted.
Sounds pretty easy, doesn’t it? You could probably find lots of applicable quotes on the Web, or at your local library. Maybe so – except for one thing. The quotes she wanted had to be in Latin! (And we threw in the English translations at no extra cost.)
Whether you’re looking for quotes that are spiritual, humorous, inspirational, classical, motivational, contemporary, relevant, unusual, familiar, cynical or poetical, on upwards of 10,000 topics, we can help. And, by the way, in addition to Latin, our foreign language repertoire includes selections in Greek, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Portuguese.
Who Makes the Call?
If you’ve ever wondered exactly what constitutes a quotation, and who decides what qualifies for that designation, the late scientist and science fiction writer, Isaac Asimov, came about as close to answering those questions as anyone we’ve found. In his Foreword to Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Quotations (co-edited by Jason A. Shulman and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, New York, in 1988), he wrote:
“There are five billion people on Earth, and I should guess that at any given moment one or two billion of us are speaking. And I should further guess that virtually nothing anyone says is memorable....There are times, however, when someone turns a phrase that seems so clever or so apt or so enlightening or so true, that the statement flies from person to person and gives pleasure at each passage. The statement becomes a ‘quotation.’ ”
To learn more, call us or send us an email. We’ll respond promptly. Or, if you’d simply like to subscribe to our monthly e-newsletter, we’ll be happy to add you to the list. There’s no cost, and we always include lots of quotes. Also, we promise we won’t call you, write to you or knock on your door, and we’ll never divulge any information about you to anyone else.
“Oh, words are action good enough,
if they’re the right words.”
D.H. Lawrence
“The difference between the right word and the nearly right word is the same as that between lightning and the lightning bug.”
Mark Twain
For just the Right Word – every time – contact:
Bob Kelly, Resident Wordsmith
WordCrafters, Inc.
10225 E. Stoney Vista Drive
Sun Lakes, AZ 85248
Phone: (480) 895-7617
Fax: (201)
829-7617
Email: bob@kellygram.com
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