Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new: Endless labor all along, Endless labor to be wrong: Phrase that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nobody Beats Us! served as our main trigger... We practiced using trigger words, private verbal keys, which unlocked certain thoughts for us.… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A good solo is like a book. It will start out in a phrase, it will go on in paragraphs, and then… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age. — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer. — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Off with you" is a phrase used by people who lack the curtesy to say something more polite, such as, "if there's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Both John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela use the same three-word phrase which in my mind says it all, which is ‘Freedom… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in… — Lucy Calkins Copy Share Image
When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in… — Laozi Copy Share Image
His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
“Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In the books by Ruy-Sanchez we find again the erotic conviction that allows us to read with all the skin. The erotic,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
He [Louis Brandais] did believe in the states famously as laboratories of democracy, to use that resonant phrase that Tea Party and… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image