quotation

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“They had a fine office and the largest and completest quotation board I have ever seen anywhere,” Edwin Lefèvre writes of one bucket shop in his 1923 classic, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator External link.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Fennell has already addressed this, noting that her film is stylized with quotation marks around the title because it’s her own vision of the book, inspired by how she imagined it as a teenager.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026

“All of a sudden, I was given a press release with a quotation by myself written in it, and asked to just agree to it,” Pazdur said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

Technically, this is not “Wuthering Heights,” but “Wuthering Heights” in the self-referential quotation marks on the poster, an acknowledgment that Fennell has plunged her fingers into the plot and manipulated it to her whims.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

To stop being a “foster child,” the quotation marks dragging the phrase down, almost drowning it.

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson