"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
For years I walked around with the phrase "Green River" because I had seen that on a soda fountain drink when I… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' anything or not. In… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase,… — Bill Forsyth Copy Share Image
There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.' — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room… — Andrew Clements Copy Share Image
Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I dislike The Exorcist, and I found it a warning sign of the dangers in a furious cinematic talent putting the audience… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
There are people who will be wanting to apply "Win" to their own, personal life. If you remember only one thing, and… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
If it's worth remembering, I'll remember it. If something keeps coming back, if I keep thinking of that phrase, if I see… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas For wind instruments was… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
How friendly are your companies' first words? Just try this...start all conversations with customers using one of the following words or phrases:… — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay.' There is a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When I said that I am the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, and more, it was not a question of superiority… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The phrase "Be Good to Each Other" is very important to me and something that I wish had been said more when… — Charlie Puth Copy Share Image
What was evident was that Mozart was simply transcribing music completely finished in his head. And finished as most music is never… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I have learned, as has many another better writer, to summon inspiration to my call as soon as I begin my day's… — Albert Payson Terhune Copy Share Image
There wasn't a colloquial phrase, or curse, that went something like, "May your day be full of angry dragons" or, "May every… — Michelle Sagara Copy Share Image
I don't like the phrase shock value. Surprise is essential in comedy, and if people are shocked by what I consider merely… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
