I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“´But when we sit together, close,´ said Bernard, ´we melt into each other with phrases.´” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.' — Grace Hopper Copy Share Image
O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound, "Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings. — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The beginning of a novel: start a subject, no matter where, and to have the desire to finish, start with very beautiful… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Christians claim that life has no meaning if you stop pretending to know things you don't know, though they phrase it more… — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
A gift of flowers to a woman implies that she is as deliciously desirable as the blossoms themselves; but there may be… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as… — Stephen Dillane Copy Share Image
All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
If I sing "you broke my heart, you left me flat," everyone knows exactly what that means - they know the story.… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like… — Clive James Copy Share Image
What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It has been said that if the opening phrase of a classical minuet can be fitted to the words "Are you the… — Gervase Hughes Copy Share Image
For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
People have learned by bitter experience that the "European fraternal union of peoples" cannot be achieved by mere phrases and pious wishes,… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I was talking to my friend and he said his girlfriend was mad at him. I said, "What happened?" He goes: "Well,… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Tell me - don't go, don't leave, please stay, I'll die if you decide to leave, I need you so I can… — Jesus Salazar Copy Share Image
Those who marry God can become domesticated too - it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word Love… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own… — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
