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Paraphrase Quotes

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Susan Sontag
Thinking, Sage, Paraphrase
Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.118, Macmillan

Ignorance is...voluntary... (Paraphrased)

Nicholas Ling
Ignorance, Paraphrased

Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ.

Kenneth Rexroth
Parliament, Wells, Paraphrase
Kenneth Rexroth, Bradford Morrow (1989). “More Classics Revisited”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.

Vladimir Nabokov
Thousand, Paraphrase, Prettiest
Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A metaphor cannot be paraphrased

Percival Everett
Metaphor, Paraphrased

Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.

Mason Cooley
Paraphrase, Quotations

Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase.

Richard Howard
Paraphrase, Translations

I had to paraphrase the paraphrase.

Peter Ackroyd
Paraphrase

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

A. J. Jacobs
Too Much, Plant, Paraphrase
A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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