Phrase Quotes

624 Phrase quotes by 519 unique authors

I respond to mood. I hear some phrase, or pick up a rhythm. — Miller Williams
Do you ever think about the fact that Jesus never said a mumbling word? You may have heard that phrase before, but how much have… — Monica Johnson
In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the idea of designer babies particularly dangerous -… — Richard Dawkins
Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase? — Jami Attenberg
Videogames based on golf have often been viewed as, to mangle a phrase, a good walk through a virtual world spoiled. Connecting with your virtual… — Rob Manuel
Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story. — Charles Hazlewood
Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is. — Peter Agre
If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war. — Steve Allen
He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase. — Don Hewitt
But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the… — Nathaniel Smith
To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity. — James Schuyler
Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I… — Jhumpa Lahiri
When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some… — Charles D. Broad
A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my… — Jonathan Kozol
There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is pumped out so… — Chris Ware
Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of… — Grace Noll Crowell
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and… — Neil Gaiman
Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh. It is there in the phrase 'making people laugh.' You feel completely in control when… — Gilda Radner
The phrase 'unconscious humor' is the one contribution I have made to the current literature of the day. — Samuel Butler
When I look at you every aged phrase is new, and there are moments when it seems Ive married one of Shakespeares dreams. — Ogden Nash
Do you know the German phrase, 'You can steal horses with him'? It means a person you can both make love with all night, passionately,… — Jonathan Carroll
Each successive phrase of our life leads toward a shared future where our climaxes, stumbles, codas, and masterpieces unravel from our dreams like a song… — Julie Rearick
Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience, and spectator, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the the greatest joy in nature is the absence of man — Bliss Carman
The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man — Rachel Carson

Who Wrote These Phrase Quotes

519 authors contributed a total of 624 Phrase Quotes, led by these top contributors: