Phrase Quotes

624 Phrase quotes by 519 unique authors

This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor… — Steven Johnson
Some words have multiple meanings. Scholastic, aware that I'm allergic to preservatives, kindly got someone to translate the phrase "I can only eat food without… — Maggie Stiefvater
I still care for you, you know.. That phrase again. Everyone cares for me. They just don't know how to love me. — Ellen Hopkins
The phrase 'I just turn on my monkey and it makes me feel good' sounds very dirty, but I can't explain why. It's great to… — Stephan Pastis
To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one… — Christopher Hitchens
A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing… — Daniel Handler
The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is… — Milan Kundera
What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and… — Jack Vance
She was nervous about the future; it made her indelicate. She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time --because she could… — Djuna Barnes
I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The… — Paulo Coelho
Sometimes, your eyes see something your brain doesn't. You pick up a nmewspaper and yourhead gives you a phrase that you didn't consciously read yet.… — Maggie Stiefvater
Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness,… — John Wesley
No man can sincerely resolve to apply to his daily life the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth without sensing a change in his own nature.… — David O. McKay
All of her heart, a meaningless phrase, but correct and precise, too. She used her heart to love him, not her head, and not her… — Charles Yu
I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is… — Cecelia Ahern
The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die… — Raymond Chandler
Off with you" is a phrase used by people who lack the curtesy to say something more polite, such as, "if there's nothing else you… — Daniel Handler
They had reached Lockhart's classroom...'You could've fried an egg on your face" said Ron. 'You'd better hope Creevey doesn't meet Ginny, or they'll be starting… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of… — Oscar Wilde
The right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing” is a phrase that refers to times when people ought to know, but don’t know,… — Daniel Handler
I peeked up at him one more time, and regretted it. He was glaring down at me again, his black eyes full of revulsion. As… — Stephenie Meyer
The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the wrong crowd," but for the wrong crowd,… — John Green
This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be… — Moderata Fonte
You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are… — Chuck Palahniuk

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