Phrases Quotes

The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases - as in the nature of things it must be - that one would suppose politicians must sometimes strain their wits to coin them.

Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.

Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.

I tend to employ braided narrative threads in the lyric, so often echoes (of phrases or images) will occur and will hit my ear so I can shape different resonances and shifts in tone.

[Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.

A truce to idle phrases!

It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.

There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'

Feminism as a theoretical enterprise is approached differently by Black women depending on where we are. There are more reformist Black women who tend to use the phrase "Black feminism".

Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious.

Donald Trump himself has an idiosyncratic speaking style that relies on simple words and phrases, which worked for him in the primaries but may be coming up short for him now.

If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means.

Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.

If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up."

I studied other singers, so I would learn how to phrase, and learn how to breathe. And the main thing was, I learned how to inhabit my song.

I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder and just write around that.

When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"

Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us.

Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.

Even if you look in the dictionary you know the meaning of the word or phrase, but there's still the feeling of it.

Tommy's [Gamble] an East Coast guy, so he kind of talks fast and in quick statements and phrases, so I understood him and he understood me, and we just hit it off.

I have a kind of remarkable ability to, for want of a better phrase, get what I want. I kind of project. I guess it's called dreaming.

Every sentence, every phrase, every word has to fight for its life.

I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.

What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.

I pray you indulge me for a space, for I am going to set out on a speech which may have some duration, but whose theme may be gleaned from its opening phrase: how dare you.

The phrase 'sodomized by a bratwurst poltergeist' suddenly flew through my mind.

Funny the only two times we use the phrase "seeing someone" are when we are referring to being in a a relationship or getting psychological help.

I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title "Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires.

If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.

Avoid theatrical flourishes - the phrases that sound so damned good that they stand up and beg to be recognized as "good writing," and therefore must be struck from the text.

Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.

In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it.

I keep coming back to the phrase "Dance with the system" - not just march onwards no matter what happens.

It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.

I still care for you, you know.. That phrase again. Everyone cares for me. They just don't know how to love me.

I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor.' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was in the theater for ten years before I ever had a TV audition.

Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.

Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.

The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments.

We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan, but of bureaucrats.

The most powerful call to action of anything that we've ever tested: Let's get to work.I didnt create that phrase. It came from Rick Scott, the current governor of Florida.

Lao Tsu doesn't seem to hold to much stock for words or phrases or teachings.

I collect words and phrases for naming the children of my brush.

Every time you use the phrase all my life it has a different meaning.

A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.