Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Playing to resentment and using a lot of, you know, grand abstract phrases like make America great again is - it just… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The house as I say ... smelled of brisket and bourbon, so you could hear that. I started imitating them. Phrases came… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
People used to say, "Clapton is God." That was a phrase that people attributed to him, and he was a guitar hero… — Michael Angelo Batio Copy Share Image
They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I guess I am nostalgic for a time - the nineteenth century and early twentieth - when writers were, to use Stefan… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
From Rome, now the nuncio is on the border where [Ukrainians] are fighting, helping soldiers and the wounded. The Church of Rome… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Avoid theatrical flourishes - the phrases that sound so damned good that they stand up and beg to be recognized as "good… — Donald Spoto Copy Share Image
Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
"...piling up zeros in your bank account, or cars in your driveway, won't in and of itself make you successful. Rather, true… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
...people like to say things like 'all work is prostitution'. Most work is exploitation, but most work is not prostitution. Prostitution is… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
I don't use the phrase 'I love you' very often, but I say it every time I talk to my children. — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
The breakdown of our language, evident in the misuse, i.e., the misunderstanding of nouns and adjectives, is most grave, though perhaps not… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
People who believe in 'universal health care' show remarkably little interest - usually none - in finding out what that phrase turns… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the things I've been trying to do is look for simpler or rules underpinning good or bad design. I think… — Martin Fowler Copy Share Image
Mapping out your own future in the form of images, phrases, and inspirational words that you are able to see every day… — Robert Cheeke Copy Share Image
I will go anywhere if you say the phrase 'there might be cake.' I would go to the Department of Motor Vehicles,… — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that… — William Mathews Copy Share Image
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