When I'm on the operating table, I'm happy for the surgeon to treat me as a machine, but the moment I return… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
There's a paraphrase about Orson Welles saying: "Great films are made by great directors and the rest are made by everyone else."… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words--liberty, equality, and fraternity--do just as much. Millions… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion was made to order to "save the world," to use a phrase Christians use so much, but we really haven't been… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense… — Larry King Copy Share Image
I'm not that good looking. That's why 'Gangnam Style' works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it's just awkward. But if someone… — PSY Copy Share Image
Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive. — Lucille Kallen Copy Share Image
Perhaps, therefore, it is odd that if there is any one phrase that is guaranteed to set me off it's when someone… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Well, within a phrase. And with a series of phrases, you can certainly create the effect of diminuendo and crescendo, no question. — Mahan Esfahani Copy Share Image
I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
'Priced to sell' - just the phrase makes me smile. When a dealer says all the items in his booth are priced… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Phrases like Worship Service or Service of Worship are tautologies. To worship God means to serve him. Basically there are two ways… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem. ... Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Government's… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through… — John Updike Copy Share Image
He tried to learn seductive phrases in all languages, but the only Swedish he had ever really needed was, "Do you serve… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Rock star do not jump!" The launch was cutting sharply, its skipper calling out a phrase that bore no relationship to the… — Peter Lerangis Copy Share Image
As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
My needs were simple I didn't bother much with themes or felicitous phrases and skipped fine descriptions of weather, landscapes and interiors.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image