"If she has five martinis, or starts quoting John Wayne, get her upstairs quick."
I can hardly start quoting Merlin's authority, or people might ask how it came my way.
The last thing Big Tom could have looked for was Rod to start quoting a totalitarian philosophy.
He started quoting things from his Modern translation, which I find really irritating.
"Don't you just hate it when she starts quoting some old dippy philosopher?"
"When you start quoting pious axioms there is no use trying to change your mind."
But I have to know the facts first before I start quoting criminal law here.
I just like to be warned when somebody's about to start quoting me.
But that feeling sunk after he started quoting the Aeneid.
"She knew all my lyrics and started quoting them to me," he said.