Random House Webster's Quotationary - Hardcover

Frank, Leonard Roy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679448500 ISBN 13: 9780679448501

Publisher: Random House Reference, 1998

Synopsis

The most comprehensive and user-friendly quotation book available, Random House Webster's Quotationaryoffers quote collectors, speech writers, students, and researchers the newest and freshest collection of quotations from around the world.

More than 20,000 infamous, interesting, and informative quotes are arranged by subject for easy look-up. Whether you need a word of wisdom about technology or a witticism on writing, the right quote is at your fingertips. With extensive cross-referencing and clear indexing by author, the Quotationary is easier to use than other books of quotations.

The Quotationary features a completely original selection of quotes, from favorite sayings and classic poems to cutting-edge commentary from today's personalities, such as Oprah Winfrey and Ted Turner.

Comprehensive: This collection features over 20,000 quotations, including many from contemporary writers, politicians, celebrities, and other quotable figures.

Easy to Use: Quotes are arranged by category--including over 1,000 subjects from Adolescence to Valor, Adversity to Zen--so it's easy to find the right quote on any subject. Extensive cross-referencing makes Random House Webster's Quotationary the easiest book to use.

All New: This unique collection includes classic quotes as well as many quotes not found in other books. Its wide selection--from across the centuries and around the world--is unrivalled.

About this title

About the Author

Leonard Roy Frank has been compiling and organizing quotes, aphorisms, and observations for the past 12 years. A native of Brooklyn, NY, he has lived in San Francisco since 1959, where he managed an art gallery before devoting himself to collecting quotations. To date, his database contains more than 40,000 quotes.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

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prehensive and user-friendly quotation book available, <b>Random House Webster's Quotationary</b>offers quote collectors, speech writers, students, and researchers the newest and freshest collection of quotations from around the world. <br><br>More than 20,000 infamous, interesting, and informative quotes are arranged by subject for easy look-up. Whether you need a word of wisdom about technology or a witticism on writing, the right quote is at your fingertips. With extensive cross-referencing and clear indexing by author, the Quotationary is easier to use than other books of quotations. <br><br>The Quotationary features a completely original selection of quotes, from favorite sayings and classic poems to cutting-edge commentary from today's personalities, such as Oprah Winfrey and Ted Turner.<br><br><b>Comprehensive:</b> This collection features over 20,000 quotations, including many from contemporary writers, politicians, celebrities, and other quotable figures.<br>&

Reviews

The 20,000 quotations in this volume are arranged by subject, from ability to Zen, and then alphabetically by author. The editor says he has included "the most interesting, well-phrased thoughts and observations." The quotations include factual statements, song lyrics, slogans, titles, and phrases. The time frame and authors are comprehensive, from Justinian I: "The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one. . ."; to Bill Clinton: "Character is a journey, not a destination." The great variety of other authors includes Larry Bird, George Booth, Henry Clay, James Fenimore Cooper, Olympia Dukakis, David Letterman, Madonna, Montaigne, Napoleon, Norman Rockwell, and Frances Trollope. The citations that accompany the quotations are quite complete: page number; section or line for books, plays, and poems; but unfortunately only the date for newspaper and magazine quotations.

A unique feature of the book is the extensive cross-referencing. Under the category headings are see also references to related categories or quotations, and under many individual quotations are see references to other quotations that are similar in content or form. Following the quotations are an index by author or source and an index of the subject categories.

Up to this point, Quotationary looks as if it could be competition for Bartlett's famous Familiar Quotations [RBB N 1 92], now in its sixteenth edition. However, Quotationary is missing a vital part--a keyword index. The importance of a keyword index is illustrated by its length in Bartlett's, which is more than 600 pages. Without this type of index it is doubtful that the quotation "The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings" would be found in Quotationary unless the source (sports broadcaster Dan Cook) is known, because it is under the category optimism: examples. Likewise, who would think to look under voting for the quote from an anonymous source, "When I die I want to be buried in Chicago so I can still be active in politics" (except perhaps a Chicagoan)?

Bartlett's and The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations [fourth ed., RBB D 1 92] are arranged by author. Because both have keyword indexes, they are better tools for finding a specific quotation. Its category arrangement makes Quotationary an excellent tool for browsing for quotations by subject. Recommended for high-school, public, and academic libraries as a complement to standard sources.

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Ted Turner on perfection:
If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

R. Buckminster Fuller on technology:
How do we know that the people we meet are not computers programmed to simulate people?

Louis A. Safian on money:
There are more important things than money--the only trouble is they all cost money.

Emily Dickinson on love:
That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love.

Casey Stengel on time:
There's a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.

Charlotte Whitton on women:
Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.
Luckily, this is not difficult.

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Reference
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679448500
• ISBN 13: 9780679448501
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1056