Quoting Others / Using Reporting Verbs

According to

And I quote,

As the author states,

As the editors point out,

As the saying goes,

As the writer puts it,

Few have said it better than

In the immortal words of

No-one has said it better than

The study claims that

The writer asserts that

The writers propose that

To borrow a phrase from the author,

Who among us is not familiar with