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It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.Collection: Phrases
They say money doesn't buy happiness. That phrase should end with 'just kidding'.Collection: Phrases
Most damning of phrases: He meant well.Collection: Phrases
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.Collection: Phrases
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 plattCollection: Phrases
Please phrase your answer in the form of a question.Collection: Phrases
Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.Collection: Phrases
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.Collection: Phrases
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.Collection: Phrases
When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.Collection: Phrases
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.Collection: Phrases
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.Collection: Phrases
Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.Collection: Phrases
Ever heard of the phrase 'midlife crisis'?Collection: Phrases
The phrase ‘the Internet never forgets’ is complete bollocksCollection: Phrases
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.Collection: Phrases
In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.Collection: Phrases
The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.Collection: Phrases
In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.Collection: Phrases
Well, within a phrase. And with a series of phrases, you can certainly create the effect of diminuendo and crescendo, no question.Collection: Phrases
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.Collection: Phrases
For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.Collection: Phrases
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.Collection: Phrases
Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.Collection: Phrases
She wasn't speaking to me - in the juvenile, petty sense of the phrase.Collection: Phrases
World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.Collection: Phrases
Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us.Collection: Phrases
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.Collection: Phrases
I still care for you, you know.. That phrase again. Everyone cares for me. They just don't know how to love me.Collection: Phrases
...He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases.Collection: Phrases
I'm going to say a phrase or terminology or vowel that I don't know how to attack .Collection: Phrases
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.Collection: Phrases
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.Collection: Phrases
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.Collection: Phrases
I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.Collection: Phrases
I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.Collection: Phrases
The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't have.Collection: Phrases
I can take a phrase that's rarely heard/Flip it - now it's a daily wordCollection: Phrases
It's very hard to imagine the phrase "consumer society" used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.Collection: Phrases
Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.Collection: Phrases
Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.Collection: Phrases
I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.Collection: Phrases
Stop scapegoating immigrants[Stop using] outrageous phrases like 'illegal aliens.'Collection: Phrases
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 itCollection: Phrases
…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.Collection: Phrases
Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything.Collection: Phrases
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.Collection: Phrases
A truce to idle phrases!Collection: Phrases
Caress your phrase tenderly; it will end by smiling at you.Collection: Phrases