Phrase Quotes

624 Phrase quotes by 519 unique authors

I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this. — Rush Limbaugh
Obama wants people, as many people as he can get, covered by the government, exchanges, however you want to phrase it, and the more the… — Rush Limbaugh
Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially… — Harvey Mackay
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only… — W. Somerset Maugham
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. — Golda Meir
The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.' — Unknown Author
Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story. — Jeanne Moreau
There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly… — P.J. O'Rourke
I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of… — Susan Orlean
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. — George Orwell
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. — Alan Price
Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do… — Dan Quayle
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the… — Carl Rogers
It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never… — Gene Simmons
After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid… — Arthur Smith
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe… — Stendhal
With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase… — Hunter S. Thompson
No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human… — Alfred de Vigny
There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.' — Ayelet Waldman
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true. — H.G. Wells
For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting. — Haruki Murakami
Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?" Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads. — Darren Shan
She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at… — John Irving
…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or… — Charles Dickens
How do you say 'bring me sausage and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?" "Look it up in the phrase book. — Regina Doman

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