Quotation
From Wikinfo
A quotation is a fragment of a human expression that is being referred to by somebody else. Most often an quotation is taken from literature, but also sentences from a speech, scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, etc. may be quoted.
Proverbs and quotations have similar cultural influence. In case of extensive quoting from a work one needs to consider copyright and fair use.
A sister project of Wikimedia Foundation called Wikiquote has been created on June 27, 2003 as a free online encyclopedia of quotations in every language. The project is located at http://quote.wikipedia.org. Diversitas is another free and open source project based on user-edited quotations in all languages.
External links
- http://www.famous-quotations.com: A huge collection of quotations
- http://www.topsitelists.com/bestsites/wbaustin/ Top Famous Quotes Sites List: A large collection of Quotations Related Sites and a search engine for over 13,000 pages of these major quotes sites
- Sententiae: multilingual open source database of quotations, aphorisms and sayings
Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Quotation" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
