This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
My mom used to tell me, I can't use this phrase on the radio - but basically don't be one of those… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Nudity is a state of fact; lewdity, to coin a phrase, is a state of mind — Paul Outerbridge Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Choose a single, sacred word or phrase that captures something of the flavor of your intimate relationship with God. A word such… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
An excellent precept for writers: Have a clear idea of all the phrases and expressions you need, and you will find them. — Ximenes Doudan Copy Share Image
There is a phrase in trade theory; it's called "kicking away the ladder." First you violate the rules - the market rules… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Leukemia is evidently psychosomatic in origin and at least eight cases of leukemia had been treated successfully by Dianetics after medicine had… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
It is deeply pejorative to call someone a 'climate change denier.' This is because it is a phrase designedly reminiscent of the… — Richard D. North Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about "welfare mothers" - a code phrase for people of colour. — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
It happens to us quite often-it feels as though I'm not playing my instrument, something else is playing it and that same… — Ginger Baker Copy Share Image
People started coining the phrase, 'Bubba Golf,' whatever you want to call it, which I like. 'Bubba Golf' is going to be… — Bubba Watson Copy Share Image
When the words ‘like a girl’ are used to mean something bad, it is profoundly disempowering. I am proud to partner with… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Copy Share Image
You'll often hear the phrase "science doesn't know everything." Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I had nothing to do with death panels. I thought it was a horrible phrase about end of life. I didn't think… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
I search the phrase "Kellyanne Conway fails," and I'm just watching that Scottie [Nell Hughes] woman smirk all the time. — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be… — Frank I. Cobb Copy Share Image
Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying. — David Antin Copy Share Image
