Quotation Rules
 1. Use quotation marks at the beginning and end of any written material or speech that is quoted. If a quotation is interrupted, quotation marks should be put around both parts.
Wasn’t it the comedian Woody Allen who wrote, “Ninety-nine percent of success is just showing up”?
“I have lost any hope of ever buying a house,” he said.
“You may have no hope," she said, “but I do.”
Do not use quotation marks with an indirect quotation.
The manager told us that our offices would be renovated.
2. Use quotation marks to set off titles of short works: magazine articles, essays, chapters, songs, short stories, poems, and so forth.
3. Use quotation marks to set off a phrase, a sentence, or a word definition. The expression interface means “a place at which independent systems meet and act on or communicate with each other.”
I have always disliked psychological jargon, such as the common expression,”Get your head together.”
4. Longer, formal quotations (five lines or more) are introduced by a colon, indented 10 spaces, and single-spaced. In this case, quotation marks are not used.
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