Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The answer is, of course, to simplify, to prioritize, and in some cases, to use a well-known phrase, "Just say no!" But… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The following is a phrase we don't hear enough but that I sincerely mean (and our culture needs to hear more often):… — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
I saw a specialist who asked me 'Are you familiar with the phrase faecal impaction?'. I said I think I saw that… — Bob Monkhouse Copy Share Image
We feel something, and reach out for the nearest phrase or hum with which to communicate, but which fails to do justice… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
I believe that the creative impulse is natural in all human beings, and that it is particularly powerful in children unless it… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Great grief prays with great earnestness. Prayer is not a collection of balanced phrases; it is the pouring out of the soul.… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
There's a phrase you hear in Israel: "We're not Jews, we're Israelis." What that means is that the stereotype we're familiar with… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar. — Alan Price Copy Share Image
Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit? — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
What triggers a poem for me is not the same as what triggers an essay. My mind is geared now to looking… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Every day, there are 770 million Cokes consumed, which means that there are 770 million purchasing decisions made each day regarding the… — John Kao Copy Share Image
“The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge--that of being a godly woman. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears.… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
The people's community must not be a mere phrase, but a revolutionary achievement following from the radical carrying out of the basic… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Its subject is the slow and erratic process by which the peoples of the British Isles learnt - and then for long… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
The social aspect of blogging is just as important as the content, so to borrow a phrase from the 1960s: the medium… — Mark Powell Copy Share Image
Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
