Phrases Quotes · Page 3

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

— Rachel Carson

At YC we have this public phrase, and it's relentlessly resourceful.

— Sam Altman

I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner.

— Stephen King

You can't really conduct your life by one or two phrases.

— Steve Martin

They say money doesn't buy happiness. That phrase should end with 'just kidding'.

— Daniel Tosh

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'

— James Caan

Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself.

— Rajneesh

It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

— Veronica Roth

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I…

— Patti Smith

“When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework.”

— Timothy Snyder

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

— Marcel Proust

I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like…

— Clive James

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

— Evelyn Waugh

They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people…

— David Levithan

When Harel wished to put a joke or witticism into circulation, he was in the habit of connecting it with some celebrated…

— Louis Edouard Fournier

There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning.…

— Camille Paglia

Why I can't stand this phrase about I don't have any permanent enemies, any permanent friends, only permanent interests. I can't stand…

— Cornel West

I do feel as if I'm living a blessed life at the moment. I've been thinking about the phrase 'living a dream,'…

— Katherine Jenkins

If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic…

— Claude Bernard

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

Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats,…

— John F. Kennedy

Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" .

— Joe Eszterhas

You might be a redneck if your parakeet knows the phrase Open up, Police!

— Jeff Foxworthy

[Bob] Dylan would cut out phrases from magazines and then paste them together.

— Jay Michaelson

“Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake.”

— Raymond Chandler

The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.'

— Moby

An odd phrase, "by heart," he would add, as though poems were stored in the bloodstream.

— Anonymous

Every time you use the phrase all my life it has a different meaning.

— George Carlin

There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'

— Ayelet Waldman

Son, the phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common".

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Don’t be ridiculous.” Only one of the most condescending phrases in the English language…and”

— Christine Pope

“It is not enough for the phrases to be good., what you make with them ought to be good too.”

— Aldous Huxley

In America, there is no racial segregation. I'm not sure I'm quite familiar with this phrase.

— Trevor Noah

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

— Jan Garbarek

In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'

— Karen Joy Fowler

Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive.

— Lucille Kallen