Iain Dowie famously coined the phrase 'bouncebackability' to describe Crystal Palace's ability to come from behind. But this is a typical manager's… — Daniel Finkelstein 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
Make your copy straightforward to read, understand and use. Use easy words; those that are used for everyday speech. Use phrases that… — Jay Abraham Copy Share Image
Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
And for those of you that dropped out of high school, remember the famous phrase: 'Do you want fries with that?' — Bobby Heenan Copy Share Image
You've come to give me a piece of your mind. You know that phrase is really beautiful. The mind is the most… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. — Alan Price Copy Share Image
Shakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all.… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Introducing someone as a "Negro poet with a University degree" or again, quite simply, the expression, "a great black poet." These ready-made… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up. I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what… — Lorde Copy Share Image
The stuff that I'm saying, they're not really traditional, structured jokes. It's not like I'm talking about growing up in Chicago or… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart. — Herbert Lockyer Copy Share Image
The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is… — Ovid Copy Share Image
The phrase 'Sense of the Earth' should be understood to mean the passionate concern for our common destiny which draws the thinking… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
There's a beautiful forgiveness practice I love which is quite simple. It's called "Ho'oponopono" (pronounced: ho-o-pono-pono) and it's a lot easier to… — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact,… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I hope the guy who came up with the phrase 'sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll' rots in hell, I'd like to… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise,… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
