A user search for quotes attributable to people or information regarding the quotes is fulfilled by providing the relevant information from a quote index. The quote index is built from a data store comprising articles that include quotes given by people. Quotes are extracted from the articles along with the relevant attributes such as the keywords, topics and entities. The extracted keywords, topics and entities are indexed with unique identifiers. A quote index is built by storing the quotes along with the keywords, topics and related entities. Quotes or information associated with the quotes based on various criteria is retrieved and presented in different formats.