Top Phrases Quotes Collection

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Image of Ismail Kadaré
It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.
- Ismail Kadaré
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Image of Daniel Tosh
They say money doesn't buy happiness. That phrase should end with 'just kidding'.
- Daniel Tosh
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Image of Laurie R. King
Most damning of phrases: He meant well.
- Laurie R. King
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Image of Alexander Smith
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.
- Alexander Smith
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Image of Sean Paul
Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Whoever came up with that phrase I wanted his greasy head on a silver platt
- Sean Paul
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Image of Alex Trebek
Please phrase your answer in the form of a question.
- Alex Trebek
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Image of Nella Larsen
Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.
- Nella Larsen
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Image of Jack Vance
What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.
- Jack Vance
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Image of Camille Flammarion
The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of the earth is only a chapter, less than that, a phrase, less still, only a word of the universe’s history.
- Camille Flammarion
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Image of Jack Smith
When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.
- Jack Smith
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Image of Henry Watson Fowler
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.
- Henry Watson Fowler
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Image of Pattiann Rogers
I've spent much of my life being attuned to watching for an image or a phrase that can trigger what might be a poem - could become a poem.
- Pattiann Rogers
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Image of Mason Cooley
Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.
- Mason Cooley
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Image of Janet Maslin
Ever heard of the phrase 'midlife crisis'?
- Janet Maslin
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Image of Jeremy Keith
The phrase ‘the Internet never forgets’ is complete bollocks
- Jeremy Keith
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Image of George Eliot
There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.
- George Eliot
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Image of Stephen Greenblatt
In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.
- Stephen Greenblatt
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Image of Jeff Greenfield
The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.
- Jeff Greenfield
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Image of Willis Regier
In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.
- Willis Regier
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Image of Mahan Esfahani
Well, within a phrase. And with a series of phrases, you can certainly create the effect of diminuendo and crescendo, no question.
- Mahan Esfahani
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Image of Dumitru Tepeneag
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.
- Dumitru Tepeneag
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Image of William Shakespeare
For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.
- William Shakespeare
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Image of Albert J. Nock
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.
- Albert J. Nock
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Image of Tom Peters
Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.
- Tom Peters
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Image of Stephenie Meyer
She wasn't speaking to me - in the juvenile, petty sense of the phrase.
- Stephenie Meyer
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Image of Eliezer Yudkowsky
World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Image of Cate Tiernan
Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us.
- Cate Tiernan
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Image of Terry Pratchett
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.
- Terry Pratchett
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Image of Ellen Hopkins
I still care for you, you know.. That phrase again. Everyone cares for me. They just don't know how to love me.
- Ellen Hopkins
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Image of Thomas Bernhard
...He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases.
- Thomas Bernhard
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Image of Lake Bell
I'm going to say a phrase or terminology or vowel that I don't know how to attack .
- Lake Bell
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Image of Ayn Rand
Another current catch-phrase is the complaint that the nations of the world are divided into 'haves' and the 'have-nots.' Observe that the 'haves' are those who have freedom, and that it is freedom that the 'have-nots' have not.
- Ayn Rand
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Image of Patti Smith
I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I contain multitudes." I understand that.
- Patti Smith
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Image of John Wesley
Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.
- John Wesley
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Image of Virginia Woolf
I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.
- Virginia Woolf
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Image of Oscar Wilde
I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.
- Oscar Wilde
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Image of Tiffanie DeBartolo
The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't have.
- Tiffanie DeBartolo
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Image of Rakim
I can take a phrase that's rarely heard/Flip it - now it's a daily word
- Rakim
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Image of Julie Burchill
It's very hard to imagine the phrase "consumer society" used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.
- Julie Burchill
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Image of Brian Tracy
Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.
- Brian Tracy
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Image of Truman Capote
Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.
- Truman Capote
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Image of Charles Dickens
I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.
- Charles Dickens
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Image of Howard Dean
Stop scapegoating immigrants[Stop using] outrageous phrases like 'illegal aliens.'
- Howard Dean
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Image of Socrates
To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it
- Socrates
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Image of Charles Dickens
…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.
- Charles Dickens
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Image of Sean Connery
Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything.
- Sean Connery
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Image of T. S. Eliot
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.
- T. S. Eliot
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Image of Aristophanes
A truce to idle phrases!
- Aristophanes
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Image of Anatole France
Caress your phrase tenderly; it will end by smiling at you.
- Anatole France
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