Phrases Quotes · Page 39

You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school,…

— Michael Fassbender

I know all the new phrases: 'cowabunga,' 'radical,' cat's pajamas,' 'duh,' and 'hey, homie don't play that.

— Si Robertson

There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or…

— Ryan Adams

The words of the Declaration of Independence, as given effect by Washington...are to be accepted as real, and not as empty phrases...that…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I…

— Tavis Smiley

The word "people" is unpleasant to me. The phrase "Soviet people" was drummed into us from childhood on. I love concrete people,…

— Vladimir Sorokin

Can we talk?

— Joan Rivers

So you are a vampire." "I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a common phrase, such a cliche, and…

— Margaret Stohl

I don't like the phrase having it all. It implies we're being greedy, like "have a second piece of pie."

— Kirsten Gillibrand

There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which.

— G. E. M. Anscombe

The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of…

— James Clerk Maxwell

My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain…

— Neil Postman

The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.

— Jeff Greenfield

What they [the 9/11 attackers] abominate about 'the west', to put it in a phrase, is not what western liberals don't like…

— Christopher Hitchens

If you're having a hard time being compassionate to or forgiving of yourself or others, you repeat these four phrases directed to…

— Marci Shimoff

I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

— Charles Dickens

There's unconditional love there. You hear that phrase a lot but it's real with me and her [June Carter]. She loves me…

— Johnny Cash

It's funny, because I don't think of my films as "slow-burn." I don't even know if I was familiar with the phrase…

— Ti West

And that phrase - 'sleeping like a baby.' Some blonde said it blithely on the subway the other day. I wanted to…

— Jenny Offill

I don't understand this phrase 'I've paid my dues.' We didn't have any money and lived on peanut butter and jelly, and…

— Ronnie Van Zant

Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.

— Ezra Pound

It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.

— Ismail Kadaré

For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as…

— Lewis Carroll

Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed…

— Rollo May