The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips. — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
The phrase "spiritual journey" is one that I've only become familiar with comparatively recently. We wouldn't have put it like that when… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
In fact, a very similar phrase was invented to account for the sudden transition of wood, metal, plastic and concrete into an… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
You and I must realize that the English language is filled with words that, in addition to their literal meanings, convey distinct… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm coming back to what you said about seeing and listening and hearing. I had to think of a remark that I… — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
The thing I get the most [in public] is, 'Hey, Eugene.' You know what I mean? There's no catch phrase like: 'What… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Do you know what the costliest phrase in technology is? 'It will work because it would be cool if it did.' — Jean Louis Copy Share Image
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible.… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
I think my dad was happy. I phrase it like this because he seldom showed much emotion. Hugs and kisses wwere a… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
There are in me, in literary terms, two distinct characters: one who is taken with roaring, with lyricism, with soaring aloft, with… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
After listening to modern tirades against the great creeds of the Church, one receives a shock when one turns to the Westminster… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Labels not only free us from the obligation to think creatively; they numb our sensibilities, our power to feel. During the Vietnam… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
It's a little bit about being a global citizen, with all the United Nations positive umph that there is with that phrase… — Anne Elizabeth Moore Copy Share Image
The phrase "singular incredible life" seems to me that it applies more appropriately to Jane Goodall or David Attenborough, people I regard… — Merrill Markoe Copy Share Image
You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
[Coining phrase "null hypothesis"] In relation to any experiment we may speak of this hypothesis as the "null hypothesis," and it should… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It… — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand.… — John Abercrombie Copy Share Image
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