The phrases thank you, I'm sorry, and I love you are overused so much that it's rare to find the sincerity in… — Berjean Encarnacion Copy Share Image
You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
I think the Congress will do the right thing. I think that they've - you know, they got into certain arguments and… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just chuck a bunch of words down and whether they find themselves into a song... I have lots of weird notes… — Thomston Copy Share Image
A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The… — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
If you can’t reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there’s something wrong with your argument. — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Whoever came up with that phrase I wanted his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile." "You think my… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with… — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Whoever coined the phrase, killing two birds with one stone, not only hated birds but also thought we needed to conserve stones. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea], not having… — Athanasius of Alexandria Copy Share Image
I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'a long time ago, in the future.' Let the children… — Romeo LeBlanc Copy Share Image
What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" . — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and… — Florence King Copy Share Image
But we are living in a skeptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age; and sometimes I fear that… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
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