Phrase Quotes

624 quotes by 519 authors

The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around… — Stephen Covey
For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it. — Malcolm Gladwell
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something… — H. L. Mencken
There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas and… — Gilbert N. Lewis
[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are… — William Lawrence Bragg
That was the absolute worst catch phrase I've ever heard in the history of Monday Night Raw. — Stone Cold Steve Austin
Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep... Just sleep together, in… — John Green
Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself.… — James Joyce
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on… — Anais Nin
Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome. — Ezra Pound
The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for a machine to… — Edward Weston
Iain Dowie famously coined the phrase 'bouncebackability' to describe Crystal Palace's ability to come from behind. But this is a typical manager's idea, so optimistic.… — Daniel Finkelstein
It is deeply pejorative to call someone a 'climate change denier.' This is because it is a phrase designedly reminiscent of the idea of 'Holocaust… — Unknown Author
One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he asked the right… — Jane Smiley
If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances… — William James
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good… — Thomas Jefferson
For years I walked around with the phrase "Green River" because I had seen that on a soda fountain drink when I was probably 8… — John Fogerty

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