Quotation

Quotation

A quotation or quote is the repetition of one expression as part of another one, particularly when the quoted expression is well-known or explicitly attributed by citation to its original source, and it is indicated by quotation marks.A quotation can also refer to the repeated use of units of any...

is the repetition of someone else's statement/thoughts. This can be in the form of words, songs, American Sign Language, written, or any other form of communication. Quotation mark

Quotation mark

Quotation marks or inverted commas are punctuation marks at the beginning and end of a quotation, direct speech, literal title or name. Quotation marks can also be used to indicate a different meaning of a word or phrase than the one typically associated with it and are often used to express irony...

s are punctuation marks used in text to indicate the words of another speaker or writer. Both of these words are sometimes abbreviated as "quote(s)".
Quote may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Qwote, Haitian-American singer, musician
• Quote (Cave Story), main fictional character

Computing

• String literal
  String literal
  A string literal is the representation of a string value within the source code of a computer program. There are numerous alternate notations for specifying string literals, and the exact notation depends on the individual programming language in question...
  
  s, computer programming languages' facility for embedding text in source code
• Quoting in Lisp, the Lisp programming language's notion of quoting
• Quoted-printable
  Quoted-printable
  Quoted-printable, or QP encoding, is an encoding using printable ASCII characters to transmit 8-bit data over a 7-bit data path or, generally, over a medium which is not 8-bit clean...
  
  , encoding method for data transmission

Finance

• Financial quote
  Financial quote
  A financial quotation refers to specific market data relating to a security or commodity. While the term quote specifically refers to the bid price or ask price of an instrument, it may be more generically used to relate to the last price which the security traded at...
  
   or sales quote
  Sales quote
  A sales quote allows a prospective buyer to see what costs would be involved for the work they would like to have done. Many businesses provide services that cannot have an upfront price, as the costs involved can vary. This can be due to the materials that would be used , and the manpower that...
  
  , commercial statement detailing a set of products and services to be purchased in a single transaction by one party from another for a defined price
• Quote.com
  Quote.com
  Quote.com is a website that delivers financial content and trading tools to active traders and individual investors. It provides free access to delayed worldwide quotes, charts and financial news covering major markets and more than 50 exchanges, including NYSE, NASDAQ, the London Stock Exchange...
  
  , a financial website
• Quote notation
  Quote notation
  Quote notation is a representation of rational numbers for which the addition, subtraction, and multiplication algorithms are the same as for natural numbers, and division is easier than the usual division algorithm, and works in the same right-to-left direction as the other arithmetic algorithms....
  
  , representation of certain rational numbers

Speech and written text

• Nested quotation, quotation inside a quotation
• Block quotation and Pull quotes, methods to highlight quotations in texts or on web pages
• Quotation mark glyphs
  Quotation mark glyphs
  Different typefaces, character encodings and computer languages use various encodings and glyphs for quotation marks. This article lists some of these glyphs along with their Unicode code points and HTML entities...
  
  , air quotes
  Air quotes
  Air quotes, also called finger quotes or Ersatz quotes are virtual quotation marks formed in the air with one's fingers when speaking. This is typically done with hands held shoulder-width apart and at the eye level of the speaker, with the index and middle fingers on each hand flexing at the...
  
  , and scare quotes
  Scare quotes
  Scare quotes are quotation marks placed around a word or phrase to indicate that it does not signify its literal or conventional meaning.- History :Use of the term "scare quotes" appears to have arisen at some point during the first half of the 20th century...
  
  , punctuation marks and their usage
• Quotation mining, compiling quotations
• Quoting out of context
  Fallacy of quoting out of context
  The practice of quoting out of context, sometimes referred to as "contextomy" or "quote mining", is a logical fallacy and a type of false attribution in which a passage is removed from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its intended meaning....
  
  , a form of fallacy
• Use–mention distinction and quasi-quotation
  Quasi-quotation
  Quasi-quotation is a linguistic device that facilitates rigorous and terse formulation of general rules about linguistic expressions while properly observing the use–mention distinction. It was introduced by the philosopher and logician Willard van Orman Quine in his book Mathematical Logic,...
  
  , the philosophical distinction between mentioning a word and using it to denote a thing or idea

Some examples of quotes are:

“Do not remember the past, learn from it. Do not be distracted from the present, concentrate on it. Do not expect the future, come to it."

-Tiago Marxen Lopes

"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind."

-Mother Teresa

"You can do anything, but not everything."

-David Allen

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry