Quotations Quotes

Quotations refers to a fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but also scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc., may be quoted. It commonly describes a price that has been quoted for buying or selling, the act of setting a price, and a quota, a share, which gives the term a broader and more practical sense than a single short definition would suggest. Taken together, these meanings present Quotations as a flexible theme rather than a narrowly technical label, covering the central idea people usually mean when they use the word while still leaving room for closely related senses that appear in real language. Quotations therefore works well as a quotation category because it can hold direct statements about the subject, figurative uses that borrow its meaning, and broader reflections that stay anchored to the same central idea. Quotations is not limited to a single rigid definition in ordinary language, and that wider range is part of what makes the category useful for grouping related material without losing the term's main sense. When used as a theme, Quotations can support serious, reflective, argumentative, or even playful quotations, provided the wording still connects back to the core idea described by the source definitions.

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