The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases - as in the nature of things it must be… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
In 2005, the Global Language Monitor-a nonprofit organization that does exactly what its name suggests-issued a tongue-in-cheek list of the year's most… — Kevin Dutton Copy Share Image
I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Consider the word “time.” We use so many phrases with it. Pass time. Waste time. Kill time. Lose time. In good time.… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
New Rule: News organizations have to stop using the phrase: "We go beyond the headlines." That's your job, dummy. You don't see… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I love women who are bosses and who don't constantly worry about what their employees think of them. I love women who… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase,… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
Seldom do we experience the charisma and character of a dynamic personality such as Lou Holtz, the very successful former football coach… — Carl Pohlad Copy Share Image
"Liberating" is a gay word, so let's phrase it this way: I know everything about me and still manage to be good… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time.… — Carol Emshwiller Copy Share Image
Whenever she uses the phrase 'I was thinking...,' that means I either have to move, paint or buy something. — Adam Ferrara Copy Share Image
When I started it [non for profit], I thought, I'm not smart enough to do this. I had no experience in management,… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I still think of myself as a house. Ravan tried to fix this problem of self-image, as he called it. To teach… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues!… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Phrase it in an interesting way; don't phrase it in a mean or unfriendly way. Bob Dole said that if there's anything… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
It [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Sometimes, your eyes see something your brain doesn't. You pick up a nmewspaper and yourhead gives you a phrase that you didn't… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I take pens and I write on the inside of my arm. When I'm with people and somebody says a really fascinating… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image