Noun
The act of quoting or citing.
That which is quoted or cited; a part of a book or writing named, repeated, or adduced as evidence or illustration.
The naming or publishing of the current price of stocks, bonds, or any commodity; also the price named.
Quota; share.
A piece of hollow type metal, lower than type, and measuring two or more pica ems in length and breadth, used in the blank spaces at the beginning and end of chapters, etc.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life itself is a quotation. Jorge Luis Borges
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. Samuel Johnson
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. Dorothy L. Sayers
A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the hungry. Jewish Proverb