quotability

IPA: kwˈoʊtʌbˈɪɫʌti

noun

  • The degree to which a person, literature, or a speech is useful or relevant for being quoted.
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Examples of "quotability" in Sentences

  • Only Casablanca (and, maybe, the Princess Bride) can survive its own quotability.
  • True, writers can't be ranked merely by their quotability, but Tagore's neglect is extraordinary.
  • Her frankness and quotability helped her move up from state senator to state treasurer in the 1994
  • Not that quotability is an absolute test of poetic value, for then Pope would rank higher than Spenser or Shelley.
  • "The boozehound reputation and endless quotability of WC Fields have ensured his place in pop culture history," writes Dennis Lim.
  • Don't get me wrong, the quotability is almost unsurpassed, but I watch it now and all-too-often think "you know, this isn't that funny …"
  • According to Mr. Burgess 'own statement, the test of nonsense is its quotability, and his work stands this test admirably, for what absurd rhyme ever attained such popularity as his "Purple Cow"?
  • The righthander, who starts against the Yankees tonight, seemed like a perfect fit for the series as someone who is known around the league for his quotability and thoughtful approach to the game.
  • "You never know where to stand in a war," he says in one of the book's most quotable sentences -- and its own quotability, the fine bite of its sound, the pregnant possibilities of its implications, tells us much about where the narrator has gotten to at that point: it's no coincidence that that sentence comes only a few pages after this passage:"I bet they'll make a movie about us," Zeller said.

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