As a child, I probably knew phrases that other children didn't known, like "pitocin drip" or "myocardial infarction." Some kind of knowledge… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
I keep coming back to the phrase "Dance with the system" - not just march onwards no matter what happens. — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
And there are other dangers potentially more dangerous than even nuclear war. There is AIDS. There is terrorism. There are drugs and… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
All this we see, and, therefore, instead of inanely repeating the old formula, Respect the law, we say, Despise law and all… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
I use the phrase "fellow citizen" all the time when referring to the - people always say, "The American people, the American… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
Stop, would you kindly? 'Would you kindly'. Powerful phrase. Familiar phrase? Sit, would you kindly? Stand, would you kindly? Run! Stop! Turn.… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
A few. . . critics are the only people I ever heard use the phrase 'imminent threat.' I didn't, the president didn't. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and… — Abi Morgan 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
Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Always, in epochs when the languages and dialects of a culture have become outstripped by development of a practical sort, these languages… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: “I swear by my life and my love… — John Galt Copy Share Image
And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That was the absolute worst catch phrase I've ever heard in the history of Monday Night Raw. — Stone Cold Steve Austin Copy Share Image
Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
That whole idea of threats to national security is a very interesting one. The phrase is very useful for the government to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Another very common use, in all cultures, of psychoactive substances is to give people transcendent experiences. To allow them to transcend their… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be 'What the hell you mean we're out… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image