There is a wonderful ancient Sufi saying which I'm going to paraphrase slightly. It says, 'When the heart weeps for what it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If you read one book you are a clone. If you read two books you are confused. If you read ten books… — Tim Keller Copy Share Image
On the downside, to paraphrase Thom Yorke talking about the music business, we're still having to deal with the stench of the… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
“If we allow ourselves to be misled by the heresy of paraphrase, we run the risk of doing even more violence to… — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
My mother used to say: 'It's not enough to be Hungarian. You still need a little talent, too.' To paraphrase her, its… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
We are raising a generation on the spiritual junk food of religious videos, movies, youth entertainment, and comic book paraphrases of the… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
“To paraphrase Demosthenes, the greater this administration’s ready tongue, the greater distrust it inspires in our allies, and the greater boldness it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To paraphrase president Kennedy's inaugural, the torch has been passed to a new generation of cartoonists and they are doing really interesting… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
I think Carl Jung said, you know, I'm gonna paraphrase it badly, but, so much of what we fall in love with… — Rosemarie DeWitt Copy Share Image
To paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the streets of Copenhagen...Capitalism is the specter, almost nobody wants… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
God loves all his children, somehow we've forgotten, but we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago. — Macklemore Copy Share Image
I will not die, it's the world that will end." paraphrase of unknown philosopher — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
"God loves all his children" is somehow forgotten But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago. — Macklemore Copy Share Image
To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing. — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much. — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe… — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be… — Bruce Feirstein Copy Share Image
To paraphrase Paul from the New Testament, he has a great soliloquy about love, where he's basically saying, if I've figured out… — Moby Copy Share Image
To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
To paraphrase the late management thinker and writer, Peter Drucker, thinking is hard work, which is why so few people (including actually… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
Witch' is just a religion, okay? No baby-sacrificing, no Black Masses, no sending imps out to scare the dog-snot out of kids,… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry.… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
