Quotation is the repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in text to indicate the words of another speaker or writer. Both of these words are sometimes abbreviated as "quote(s)". Quote may also refer to: String literals, computer programming languages' facility for embedding text in source code Quoting in Lisp, the Lisp programming language's notion of quoting Quoted-printable, encoding method for data transmission Usenet quoting, the conventions used by Usenet and e-mail users when quoting a portion of the original message in a response message Financial quote or sales quote, commercial statement detailing a set of products and services to be purchased in a single transaction by one party from another for a defined price Quote.com, a financial website Quote notation, representation of certain rational numbers Quote... Unquote, panel game on BBC Radio 4 Quote (magazine), a Dutch magazine. Most notable for publishing a yearly list of the 500 richest Dutchmen (nl:Quote 500). Quote, the protagonist of the 2004 platform game Cave Story Nested quotation, quotation inside a quotation Block quotation and Pull quotes, methods to highlight quotations in texts or on web pages Quotation mark glyphs, air quotes, and scare quotes, punctuation marks and their usage Quotation mining, compiling quotations Quoting out of context, a form of fallacy Use–mention distinction and quasi-quotation, the philosophical distinction between mentioning a word and using it to denote a thing or idea or the Wikipedia policy on quoting, see Wikipedia's Manual of Style. For the Wikipedia essay, see Wikipedia:Quotations. This article is about quoting text. For information about the punctuation mark, see Quotation mark. For the non-English usage, see Quotation mark, non-English usage. For market data relating to a security or commodity, see Financial quote. For the price of a service, see Sales quote. A quotation is the repetition of one expression as part of another one, particularly when the quoted expression is well-known or explicitly attributed by citation to its original source, and it is indicated by (punctuated with) quotation marks. A quotation can also refer to the repeated use of units of any other form of expression, especially parts of artistic works: elements of a painting, scenes from a movie or sections from a musical composition. Quotations are used for a variety of reasons: to illuminate the meaning or to support the arguments of the work in which it is being quoted, to provide direct information about the work being quoted (whether in order to discuss it, positively or negatively), to pay homage to the original work or author, to make the user of the quotation seem well-read, and/or to comply with copyright law. Quotations are also commonly printed as a means of inspiration and to invoke philosophical thoughts from the reader. Section 30(1) of the United Kingdom Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (apparently in transposition of Article 5(3)(d) of the EU Copyright Directive on quotations) allows fair dealing with a copyrighted work for the purpose of criticism or review, provided that it is accompanied by sufficient acknowledgement. Many quotations are routinely incorrect or attributed to the wrong authors, and quotations from obscure or unknown writers are often attributed to far more famous writers. Examples of this are Winston Churchill, to whom many political quotations of uncertain origin are attributed, and Oscar Wilde, to whom anonymous humorous quotations are sometimes attributed.[1] Deliberate misquotation is also common, though this often goes unnoticed, usually because the misquotation is better known or because the misquotation better fits a situation. For example, the Star Trek catchphrase "Beam me up, Scotty" did not appear in that form in the original series—likewise, the famous Dirty Harry quotation "Are you feeling lucky, punk?" is a rewording of the original dialogue: "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?" Humphrey Bogart's character Rick in Casablanca never said "Play it again, Sam." The actual expression is "Play it, Sam." Darth Vader in Star Wars IV (for Blu-ray) says "No, I am your father" which George Lucas re-worded from the original expression "Luke, I am your father" from the original version of the film.
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