Word: quoter
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...course, winning my first Grammy was a tremendous thrill, but being voted as Eclectic Quoter of the Year really takes the cake," Polsky said...
...consider yourself the best quoter on the team...
Polsky: "My teammates are a great bunch of guys. There's been no sign of bitterness with my growing success as a quoter. Actually, they're kind of my groupies as it were, and there hasn't been a day when at least one of the players hasn't come to practice with a tape recorder or a pad and pencil in hand begging for a sentence...
What should have been, at best, an act of therapy turns out to be a minor work of art. Sarah Ferguson is as intelligent as she is neurotic: educated by governesses until she was 15, an Oxford product, a quoter of the currently quotable - from William Blake to Hermann Hesse. She is also a religious woman who speaks about her "sins" and, in a chillingly matter-of-fact tone, refers to divorce as "a broken promise...
...long literary line of unworldly New World girls, starting with Daisy Miller, who have pitted their innocence against Old World ambiguities of Europe and pluckily gone under. In her own words, Shirley is "warm, generous, brave even." She is also sloppy, tactless, catty, softhearted, scatterbrained, a compulsive quoter out of context and snooper in her husband's desk drawers, gigantically absentminded, passably promiscuous, desperately lonely, guilt-ridden, polyglot, and sympathetically drawn to other people's troubles. She does the wrong thing every chance she gets, and St. Joseph (her code word for fate) never fails to give...