Every time you use the phrase all my life it has a different meaning. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
People can try to eat the correct things, take the correct amount of exercise, worry less and so forth. But in the… — Peter Dickens Copy Share Image
The perfect family doesn't exist, nor is there a perfect husband or a perfect wife, and let's not talk about the perfect… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
How do you say 'bring me sausage and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?" "Look it up in the phrase… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
i keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
There's nothing good about being certain about things. And I don't think there's any real talent in using language in a manipulative… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It's quite literally true that we are star dust, in the highest exalted way one can use that phrase. ...I bask in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
This is a strange book: visionary and dark. It stutters out a kind of music: repeated phrases which accumulate errors and mutate… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe,… — William James Copy Share Image
I hate this phrase, but it's a "can do" attitude [that's important] that, whatever you do in life, you should have. — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long… — Joe DiMaggio Copy Share Image
I just go for what makes me feel good. Especially in 2011, it's so easy to sound like a dickhead when describing… — Mike Tucker Copy Share Image
Romanian? That's impressive," said Jace. "Not many people speak it." "Do you?" Sebastian asked with interest. "Not really," Jace said with a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
[Maggie Smith] brings new meaning to the phrase "doesn't suffer fools." She has just the most amazing, dry timing of anyone ever,… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
My opinion is that we have, in the person of Da Free John, a Spiritual Master and religious genius of the ultimate… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
I tend to employ braided narrative threads in the lyric, so often echoes (of phrases or images) will occur and will hit… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image