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Commonplace Books and Quotation Sites
Commonplace books
-
A Commonplace book for
Advisors (M.J. Leonard)
- "A treasury of quotationsfor adacemic advisors
and other mentors in higher education."
- Commonplace Book
(Roger Alexander)
- Math and more
- Richard's
Commonplace Book [Internet Archive copy]
- "... references I found useful while developing my own ideas about
language and art, and are offered here along with a few notes on them."
- Commonplace Book
Jeremy Cantrell [Internet Archive copy]
- Language, English, more
- Quotation Collections (A.M. Kuchling)
- A commonplace book and quotations from comic boosk, Neil Gaiman, H.P. Lovecraft, Shakespeare,
Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes, amusing quotes from comp.lang.python, and quotes about
the 2002-2006 housing market bubble.
Good places for more quotations
- Against Excessive Skepticism
(Bill Beaty)
- Collected quotes from a "science hobbyist"
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- All The "Cool Quotes"
About Libraries, Books, And Knowledge (Marylaine Block. Ex Libris) [Internet Archive copy]
- "Sharing is under siege."
- Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations, 10th Ed (Bartleby)
- The tenth edition of 1919 contains over 11,000 searchable quotations.
- The Book of
Clichés
- "...lists phrases to say in times of trouble in a number of categories." Since 1996.
- Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
(Bartleby)
- comprises over 18,000 entries that reveal the etymologies, trace the origins and otherwise catalog “words with a tale to tell.”
- dhcmrlchtdj
-
Quotations of Jorges Luis Borges. "I cannot combine certain letters,
as dhcmrlchtdj, which the divine Library has not foreseen and
which in one of its secret tongues do not contain a terrible meaning." The
Library of Babel (1941).
- EFF Quotes Collection 19.6
(The Electronic
Frontier Foundation)
- "Collection of quotes, pithy to absurd, on issues surrounding EFF's
activities, from cryptography to hacking, from First Amendment rights to national
security." Updated: Apr. 9, 2001
- Fagan Finder: Quotations and Proverbs
Search (Michael Fagan)
- This page attempts to collect the largest sources of quotations and
related items (proverbs, sayings, maxims, amorphisms, slogans, clichés,
etc.). Many of the websites included here also include things such as
full text of speeches, author biographies, and quotes of the day.
- Government
Secrecy And Openness, Quotes. (British Columbia Freedom of Information and
Privacy Association)
- Just a few quotes.
- Internet Movie Database
Search Text of Quotes (IMDb)
- Seems to work best if you have a phrase.
- Literary Quotations
(Yerna)
- "Yenra is an encyclopedia of the modern world."
- Metaphors in
Various Disciplines (Virginia Montecino)
- Links to information about metaphors and a
"Bibliography of text-based metaphor resources."
- The Phrase Finder
- The meanings and origins of over 1,200 English sayings, phrases and idioms.
Includes a free email service: 'A Phrase A Week.' [Note: "The Phrase Thesaurus
product was developed as part of a computational linguistics project
that ran at Sheffield Hallam University from 1997 to 2001. The database
was transferred to a commercial server in Nov 2001. That research also
produced the Phrase Finder website which provides public access to the
meanings and origins of many phrases and sayings in English."]
- Quotations (Rory Litwin)
- from th Library Juice blog.
- Quotations on the Environment
(Physical Plant - Recycling, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN)
- Includes: Animals/Creatures, Consumerism/Overconsumption, Energy/Alternatives, Forests, Future, General Environmental Quotes, Global Warming, Land, Pollution, Plants, Recycling/Landfills, Sky, Stewardship, Sustainability, Water.
- Quotes & Sayings (Amit Kothari)
- about 20Mb. of text, as of 22nd January 2000.
- Quotes About History
(Ferenc M. Szasz)
- Mr. Szasz is a professor of history at the University of New Mexico.
- Quotations Page (Michael Moncur)
- "The oldest quotation site on the Web, established 1994." Over 26,000
quotations from over 3,100 authors, more added daily.
- Quoteland (David Borenstein)
- Since 1997.
- Rand Lindsly's
HUGE Quotations File (Rand Lindsly )
- mostly short quotes. all on one page.
- Wikiquote (Wikimedia Foundation)
- the free quote compendium that anyone can edit.
Lists of Links to other quotations sources
- Arts: Movies:
Quotations (Open Directory [dmoz.org])
- Pathfinder:
Quotations (The Internet Public Library)
- Quotation Ring
(Webring)
- This ring contains sites that display quotations and links to further sites
with good quotes.
- Reference:
Quotations (The Internet Public Library)
- Reference:
Quotations (Open Directory [dmoz.org])
- Reference: Quotations
(Yahoo)
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