quotability

Time for a new look at the lexicon of quotability.

A moment is proven to be striking by its quotability.

The site operated from 2000 until early 2004, and quickly established a reputation for quotability.

For all his quotability, Pound is not particularly gregarious and can even be socially awkward.

Half of quotability lies in the text, half in the reader.

Mr. Giambi seems to have the rare combination of quotability and thick skin.

Bites tyrannize us, homogenizing and cheapening the notion of quotability.

An author's quote quotient depends upon two things: the quotability of the work itself and our ability to quote it.

The decline in Shakespeare's quotability cannot be demonstrated statistically, but the anecdotal evidence grows apace.

His charisma is inescapable, his quotability legendary.

Watson's writing is known for its quotability due to its succession of compact but meaning-filled statements reiterating and refining key points.

An attributed line of lasting quotability, "Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else" is used widely, often in arguments about documentation and history.

On matters musical, philosophical and intellectual (or when telling jokes, for which he has a wicked flair), the maestro can be expansive far past the bounds of quotability.

The extensive use of Sabato as a "Dr. Dial-a-Quote" has been noted in political media circles and attributed to his easy quotability and ability to offer pronouncements on a wide variety of topics.

From that success has come the appearances on the "Today" show, where he is frequently trotted out (19 times and counting) as the spokesman for Everyman, combining cheerful quotability with extensive data culled in the interest of getting to know "Him."

We still quote Shakespeare partly because he wrote golden words for an age when quotability was the tongue's currency; but we also, as often as not, quote Shakespeare's age when we think we are quoting Shakespeare, solely singular.

Like all actors with reviews, he checked through it for quotability, and decided that, with only slight injustice to the meaning, and the excision of a comma, he could come up with the very serviceable sentence, 'Charles Paris grows in stature through the evening.'

In 2012, HitFix's Alan Sepinwall cited the episode as his favorite of the show, writing that it "captures everything that was and is great about the series: social satire, extraordinary quotability ('This Things I Believe'), a good family story, and an innate sweetness in spite of Homer's outsized antics."