Quotations Weblog

If you’re a regular user of our Quote search page, you know it’s not the ideal search—it works well for simple keyword searches, but finding a quotation you’re looking for isn’t always easy.

I’m working on a long-awaited list of improvements to our search feature. I don’t have the new search running yet, but I’ll make it available as a test for a week or two before it replaces the current version.

In the meantime, here’s your chance help shape the future of this site. If you’ve recently searched for a quotation, or if there’s one you’re looking for now—how did your search go? What would you like to see work differently? Do you usually search for particular things, or are you just browsing for inspiration or for a laugh?

You can leave a comment here, or as always, contact us by email. Thanks for your time!

As we add new quotations, we create pages for authors we had not previously quoted—or at least not previously quoted correctly. Here are some of the authors we added in the last week:

• Alan Bennett
• Aneurin Bevan (Welsh labor leader)
• John Randolph (US Politician)
• Archibald MacLeish (US administrator and poet)
• Konstantin Stanislavsky (Russian actor and director)
• Mary Todd Lincoln (Wife of Abraham Lincoln)
• Maxwell Anderson (US Playwright)
• Carlos Castaneda
• Grenville Kleiser
• Hugh Prather

Thanks to Laura adding over a hundred in one sitting the other day, we’ve finally reached 25,000 Quotations online at The Quotations Page. Thanks to all of the people who have contributed quotations, and to everyone who visits the site daily.

This is only the beginning—we’ll continue to add new quotations, improve the accuracy of our collections, and add features. Stay tuned.

Here are a few of the newest quotations:

We’re finally adding new books again at our sister site, The Literature Page. Here are the latest additions:

• Tom Tiddler’s Ground by Charles Dickens
• The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
• Autobiography of Anthony Trollope by Anthony Trollope
• Aaron Trow by Anthony Trollope
• The Belton Estate by Anthony Trollope
• Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

The Trollope works are by request. If you’ve got a favorite author we haven’t included, let us know! (Of course, we only publish public-domain works, so it will have to be something released before 1923. Don’t blame us, blame Mickey Mouse and Sonny Bono.)

We’re going to be busy with other commitments for the next two weeks, so we probably won’t be posting here. While we are gone, please enjoy these entries from our past:

• Quotations Weblog » Archive » The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal

• Quotations Weblog » Archive » Sacred Idleness

• Quotations Weblog » Archive » My Favorite Quotations: Oprah Winfrey

• Quotations Weblog » Archive » Something Positive Quotations

• Quotations Weblog » Archive » My favorite quotations: Douglas Adams

Read one of these every other day and that should last you until we return. Don’t forget, the Quotes of the Day and Motivational Quotes of the Day are still updated every day.

See you in May!