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
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
I believe in market economics. But to paraphrase Churchill - who said this about democracy and political regimes - a market economy… — Nouriel Roubini 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
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
"God loves all his children" is somehow forgotten But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago. — Macklemore Copy Share Image
I believe that our world needs an instrument of global action as never before in history. I believe that the United Nations… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in;… — Aleister Crowley 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
Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase. — Mason Cooley 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
I paraphrase Lord Rothschild: ‘The time to buy is when there's blood on the streets.' — David Dreman 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
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
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
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the other forms. — Ha-Joon Chang 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
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
To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
To paraphrase Hemingway, people go broke slowly and then all at once. We've been slowly going broke for years, but now it's… — Sarah Palin 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
The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase) — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
