Our use of phrase 'The Dark ages' to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe... — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
... it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
You might be a redneck if your parakeet knows the phrase Open up, Police! — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In 5 minutes, 1 minute and many other phrases most of them are a lie..., but why do we say them?” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
The phrase 'contrary to all expectations' rings through the story of the progress of human knowledge. It was 'contrary to all expectations'… — Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart Copy Share Image
The real people nation have for centuries had the practice at birth of speaking the same first phrase to all newborns. Each… — Marlo Morgan Copy Share Image
The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated… — John Green Copy Share Image
And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation....… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The keys that unlock the heart are made of funny materials: a disarming phrase that comes out of the blue, nowhere, a… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
The most important thing is that you make sure you follow the music, which is a musician's way of saying follow your… — Robben Ford Copy Share Image
If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that… — Bill Halter 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
What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
[Is the Conservative Party still the Nasty Party?] I said it was perceived as the Nasty Party. And is it? I don't… — Theresa May 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
I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences,… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
FedEx is another company that's passionate. When it absolutely, positively has to get there is such a great, aspirational phrase. And FedEx… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it.… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image