Quoting Thoughts

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. -Oscar Wilde

While I'm an avid quoter of movies and songs, I tend to agree with Oscar, especially in this day and age. We are so inundated with entertainment in all it's forms and it seems "the clever words have all been taken"; original expression is reaching an all time low. In casual conversation we quote movies, songs, books. In fact I believe we played a game here on CIAT, where we were going to have an entire conversation using ONLY song lyrics. I bet face-to-face we could discuss, debate, retort solely in quotations from other sources.

Not that quoting is a bad thing. Jesus quoted from the scriptures, the thoughts of Jehovah, while he was on earth. We quote from the scriptures and from Bible-based publications in our ministry, at the meetings, and probably in our daily lives too. And what better things to quote than those!

Yet today the way entertainment goes, it can even control our own verbal expression. I find it funny when ones claim that their entertainment has NO effect on them...that they can listen to certain types of music or see certain types of movies and they don't influence them in any way. However those songs get stuck in your head, and those movie quotes find a place in conversation SOMEWHERE .

Nevertheless, that being said, what do you quote from the most?