Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I suppose I ought to think up some dramatic, quotable phrase for Public Information and the history books, but I'm damned if… — David Weber Copy Share Image
Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Here's a phrase that apparently the airlines simply made up: near miss. They say that if 2 planes almost collide, it's a… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Who ya gonna call?" "Ghostbusters!" "That phrase is ruined forever. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw.… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite… — Miranda Richardson Copy Share Image
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases... — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
I have always liked the phrase "nursing a grudge " because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
He's a boating enthusiast, although that phrase seems too weak to describe the level of his interest, kind of like describing someone… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
In the simplest formulation, when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different things active together and supported by a… — I. A. Richards Copy Share Image
I don't care about truth; I care about art and style and writing and occupying the wall. For me, my writing style… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
