Phrases Quotes

Caress your phrase tenderly; it will end by smiling at you.

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed.

People are bringing SHOTGUNS to UFO sightings...brings a whole new meaning to that phrase 'You ain't from around here, ar'ya?'

Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself.

The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.

Breathe slumbrous music round me, sweet and slow,To honied phrases set!Into the land of dreams I long to go.Bid me forget!

A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation.

Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase and find that it helps you, that is a valid affirmation.

Taste speaks through a turn of phrase, a curl of the lip, a shrug of the shoulder: it makes an atmosphere.

[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.

You might be a redneck if your parakeet knows the phrase Open up, Police!

The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time.

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.

You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.

I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.

Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.

Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II in the lexicon of squabble.

I know all the new phrases: 'cowabunga,' 'radical,' cat's pajamas,' 'duh,' and 'hey, homie don't play that.

Mapping out your own future in the form of images, phrases, and inspirational words that you are able to see every day will help reinforce your desires to attain what you set out to achieve.

It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death.

To me an anthology gives meaning to the phrase, "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts." Even if those individual parts are really f-ing hot.

Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them.

Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.

This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.

If I can invent a phrase then this Democrat [Bernie] Sanders takes her [Hillary Clinton] off the hook on the emails. Could there still be an FBI indictment? Probably not.

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

The Republicans, in the various arguments, repeat exactly the same phrases one after another, with no sense of embarrassment, no sense of shame, no sense of intellectual integrity.

Who ya gonna call?" "Ghostbusters!" "That phrase is ruined forever.

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.

Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our children.

Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.

The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.

The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words.

I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.

I don't like the phrase shock value. Surprise is essential in comedy, and if people are shocked by what I consider merely surprising, then that's their shock. But there is no joke without surprise.

why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you

Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when except for a few religious phrases, and a little more outside respectability, he is just the old man, the same character at heart he ever was?

All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.