Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
What both the state and the capitalist economy oppose is an understanding of what might be called "the true nature of things"… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“The phrase "the violent bear it away" fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity.… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase… — Bruce McCall Copy Share Image
“But no longer could I aks God what to do, since the answer, I was sure, would not suit me. I could… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I'm a Roman Catholic. Or was. I was brought up that way and used to say my prayers every night, but I… — Cilla Black Copy Share Image
I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Someone once said that "The Waste Land" was a scum of poetry floating on a sea of footnotes. That resonated with me,… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though they may not recommend themselves to the sense which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do very little on-camera acting, so within a phrase as a voice actor you have to know how to convey when… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of,… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
