The most damaging phrase in the language is: `It's always been done that way.' — Grace Hopper Copy Share Image
The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
I peeked up at him one more time, and regretted it. He was glaring down at me again, his black eyes full… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
[Indira Gandhi] looked tired that day, and all of a sudden I exclaimed, 'Deep down I don't envy you, and I shouldn't… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder… — Bucky Pope Copy Share Image
A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It's important to preach like there's a broken heart on every pew. That's always been a phrase that stuck with me. Not… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Even if you look in the dictionary you know the meaning of the word or phrase, but there's still the feeling of… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
In marriage, if you're a guy, learn two phrases. One is "yes, dear" and the other is "honey, you're right." Be patient.… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I'm inspired to write songs in many different ways - it can come from a melody, a word or phrase or something… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases,… — Stuart Dodgson Collingwood Copy Share Image
In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'. — Sam Ewing Copy Share Image
I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, "what they can live… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. Existing where there is nothing is the meaning of the phrase, "Form… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
Sometimes when an idea flashes, you distrust it because it seems too easy. You qualify it with all kinds of evasive phrases… — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
I'm not a haiku artist, but I wanted to use the phrase 5, 7, 5 in the melody that flows over time.… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, science cannot be reduced to short, catchy phrases. And if this is all that the general public can comprehend, it's no… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Many of the words and phrases used in the media and among academics suggest that things simply: happen: to people, rather than… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image