quotability

Bruce Glover's quotability lent some excellent perspective to his ability to achieve a coaching feat that remains unequaled in Illinois high school football history.

Whether Justice Kagan's analogy served to enlighten readers or, just as likely, confuse them, it's no doubt the case that justices who strive for accessibility and quotability, as Justice Kagan and Chief Justice Roberts clearly do, find that books can be useful tools.

They note the importance of characteristics such as "quotability" (Can users easily use part of it, such as a clip or an excerpt, when generating their own content?) and "grabbability" (Can a user easily share it using technology such as YouTube's embed code?).

Prem needs Ollie CRYSTAL Palace manager Ian Holloway has lost none of his outspoken opinion and quotability. After his Crystal Palace team were beaten by a Tottenham Hotspur penalty last weekend, Holloway decided to tell it like it is.

Maybe the Liverpool boss believes he has the quotability of a latter-day Bill Shankly.

Dominik also seems to share Tarantino's love of dialogue, conversations taking precedence over action, though it doesn't quite match the latter's deft rhetoric and instant quotability.

Russia's envoy to NATO, Dimitry Rogozin, recently used the good old quote from NATO's first Secretary General Lord Ismay about the essence of NATO being to "keep the Americans in, the Russians out and the Germans down." Time has not eradicated the poignancy and quotability of these words.

Against the ready quotability and easy memorizability of excerpted and abbreviated literary lines, it is worth pointing out that the last passage cited above comes from The book of illusions.

On a perhaps more frivolous note, another quality of Britton's work that makes his undeserved obscurity so surprising is its eminent quotability. How exactly is it that lines such as "the discourse of postmodernism as a whole reminds one of nothing so much as a game of Trivial Pursuit for highbrows" (p.