People speak because they are afraid of silence. They speak mechanically whether aloud or to themselves. They are intoxicated by this vocal… — Andreï Makine Copy Share Image
The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us. — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now." I am willing to… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
I've always been very keen on Pascal, and what I'm most keen on in Pascal is his emphasis upon human wretchedness. He… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
When you have been in TV and performing for as long as I have, you realise that you probably entertain in your… — Rolf Harris Copy Share Image
Believe in better, which is a corporate phrase rather than a political phrase. We don't want more. We're not looking for quantity.… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I've always been more than a little mystified by poets who seem to think talking to people as directly as possible is… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
In a new interview, Newt Gingrich says he cheated on two of his wives because he was too consumed with love for… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hugo Chavez has tried to steal an inspiring phrase 'Patria o muerte, venceremos.' It does not belong to him. It belongs to… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing” is a phrase that refers to times when people ought to know,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My husband and I speak an ancient language called grammatical English, and the kids speak a strange dialect which is difficult to… — Teresa Bloomingdale Copy Share Image
The phrase "global citizen" always gets tossed around with my work, and part of it is that, clearly, talking about being a… — Anne Elizabeth Moore Copy Share Image
Honestly, amongst all of the SHINee members, in the terms of looks, physique, expression, and everything is charismatic, and the only phrase… — Onew Copy Share Image
As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image,… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
I tried to find a rhythm, and I stopped comparing myself to anybody else. One of the great phrases for me is… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
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