The phrase "may you live in interesting times" is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue "may you come… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A new report just came out that says President Obama has mentioned Jesus Christ in more speeches than President Bush did. Can… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
The system should speak the users' language, with words, phrases and concepts familiar to the user, rather than system-oriented terms. Follow real-world… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
When we listen to improvisational jazz, or solo classical violinists, the way they phrase and inflect melodies feels vocal, like they’re talking… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
I'm everlastin, I can go on for days and days With rhyme displays that engrave deep as X-rays I can take a… — Rakim Copy Share Image
I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title "Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
In Japan we have the phrase, "Shoshin," which means "beginner's mind." Our "original mind" includes everything within itself. It is always rich… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
To what level does your patriarchal blessing reach in your life? Can you recollect the time you received it and recover any… — Truman G. Madsen Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
When I wrote "Win," it only took about eight months, but eight months of sheer pain and suffering because every phrase that's… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
It's not often that I get to remember and use phrases like "on out my farm" or "powerful ugly" in modern scripts. — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Sam Vimes could parallel process. Most husbands can. They learn to follow their own line of thought while at the same time… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
It has been said that if the opening phrase of a classical minuet can be fitted to the words "Are you the… — Gervase Hughes Copy Share Image
World class is a phrase used by provincial cities and second-rate entertainment events, as well as a wide variety of insecure individuals,… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The word "metaphor" means carrying something from one place to another . . . and it is when you describe something by… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
You know, Obama says we can't use the word "terrorism." We can't use the word "foreign." We can't use any of these… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated… — Harold Ross Copy Share Image
