I have used several quotations in the past on my (dormant) Radio website from the motivational quotes of the day site but AFAIK have complied with their conditions of use by citing them as the original source.

I was therefore somewhat surprised today to get an e-mail from one of the 'authors' of a one line quote asking that I take it off the Radio weblog page. I have no problem with someone asking me to do that and I have 'deleted' it from that day's page. The reason for the request was that they expected to get paid for every use of the quote.

I guess I can't argue with that but it's a strange old world when one-line quotations become commodities. It got me think about quotations. Are they only of interest if they have originated from a 'celebrity' of some sort? Can you only be motivated by someone famous? Hmmm!