Phrases Quotes

Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

It has been said that if the opening phrase of a classical minuet can be fitted to the words "Are you the O'Reilly who owns this hotel?" then it was written by Haydn; if it can't then it wasn't.

They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.

Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.

Two of my favorite phrases to repeat to myself daily are 'Life is perfect' and 'I am grateful'. The more I do, the better I feel. Try it for yourself!

I usually start with a title or maybe a little rhyme or phrase.

Never use the phrase: 'buy my book' - ever.

You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.

Stop scapegoating immigrants[Stop using] outrageous phrases like 'illegal aliens.'

I've read your summary." "And?" "It's not incompetent." Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you expect it to be written in crayon?

Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.

I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.

He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.

Iggy: "Now what? Who you gonna call?" A quiet voice in the hallway outside: "Ghostbusters!" (Captain Perry and John groan) John: "That phrase is ruined forever.

Ever heard of the phrase 'midlife crisis'?

[Bob] Dylan would cut out phrases from magazines and then paste them together.

I can't write story-songs, like I couldn't write a Bob Dylan or Tom Waits song. I can only write whatever weird phrases come into my head, and hope that they're good.

Do you know what the costliest phrase in technology is? 'It will work because it would be cool if it did.'

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

The phrase "corporate identity design" seems to be a bit exclusive it sometimes frightens the smaller client who can't relate because they don't consider themselves "corporate."

The phrase ‘the Internet never forgets’ is complete bollocks

There is no more embarrassing thing in my life than the fact that I have actually uttered the phrase, 'I would like to order the Ginsu Knife.'

Can we talk?

Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" .

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.

I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers - where you repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation', and 'To conclude'.

The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters, will never stand amid the shocks of life.

What a phrase that is: 'that explains everything!' I know better than to think anything 'explains everything' today.

I went to Harvard and immediately fell into the theater gang, and I was already an experienced actor, so you go with the flow! I've already used the phrase "campus star."

They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.

I love the phrase, 'Somebody's going to have a good day today, so it might as well be me.' I feel like you bring everything to the character, I hope.

You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile." "You think my smile is beguiling?

It's very hard to imagine the phrase "consumer society" used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.

In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'

What passes for an original opinion is, generally, merely an original phrase. Old lamps for new - yes; but it is always the same oil in the lamp.

I search the phrase "Kellyanne Conway fails," and I'm just watching that Scottie [Nell Hughes] woman smirk all the time.

The phrases and language used everyday in an organization can in fact affect the way your team makes decisions and conducts themselves.

I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'

I don't like the phrase having it all. It implies we're being greedy, like "have a second piece of pie."

See? You’re the crazy one, you redheaded freak. I’ve been attempting to translate the phrase into Latin. If I ever succeed, I shall make it my personal motto.

For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all.

Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

Well, within a phrase. And with a series of phrases, you can certainly create the effect of diminuendo and crescendo, no question.

For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.

It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?

It's not often that I get to remember and use phrases like "on out my farm" or "powerful ugly" in modern scripts.

Also, when on a campaign to convince a stranger that you aren't a few fries short of a Happy Meal, throwing around phrases like "tangentially Swedish" is not the best way to go.