Phrase Quotes

624 Phrase quotes by 519 unique authors

I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing. — Charles Dickens
How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and… — Benjamin Disraeli
I don't understand this phrase 'I've paid my dues.' We didn't have any money and lived on peanut butter and jelly, and I loved it.… — Ronnie Van Zant
I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner. — Stephen King
Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for… — Gloria Steinem
Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than change a phrase.… — Gloria Steinem
Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning… — Unknown Author
Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know. — John Donne
The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything. — Ernest Hemingway
There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of… — Allen Tate
On the Continent there is one topic which should be avoided-the weather; in England, if you do not repeat the phrase "Lovely day, isn't it?"… — George Mikes
Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle… — Phyllis McGinley
To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be… — Barbara Walters
It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not… — Jorge Luis Borges
No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose… — Herbert Spencer
Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak,… — Josiah Royce
When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish. — Jack Smith
Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces.… — Aneurin Bevan
Taste speaks through a turn of phrase, a curl of the lip, a shrug of the shoulder: it makes an atmosphere. — Irving Howe
There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
Jesus' kingdom was not like the popular expectation. He used the phrase 'kingdom of God' with a different meaning. His kingdom was not of this… — Tom Harpur
When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil procedure is the… — Anne-Marie Slaughter
It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities. — Anton Seidl
There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was… — Peter S. Beagle
Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the… — Linda Lingle

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