Phrase Quotes

624 Phrase quotes by 519 unique authors

In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough. — Stephen Greenblatt
There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the… — Donald Rumsfeld
We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands… — Constantin Stanislavski
When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than… — Jacob Bronowski
In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'. — Sam Ewing
We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a… — Edward Abbey
A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill… — Alexander Hamilton
It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice,… — Plutarch
A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist.… — Isaac Babel
All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light. — Clive James
Writing is the same as music. Itâ€™s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it.… — Robert Creeley
If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were the people who… — Ayn Rand
People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche. — E. V. Lucas
The phrase 'nature and nurture' is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of which personality is… — Francis Galton
Great communication depends on two simple skills-context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery, which allows a… — John C. Maxwell
I hope the guy who came up with the phrase 'sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll' rots in hell, I'd like to change it so… — Gene Simmons
I have a lot of friends who are getting married. I try to avoid talking to them about their sex lives now 'cause it's so… — Ted Alexandro
If the women's movement can be summed up in a single phrase, it is 'the right to choose'. — Unknown Author
What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille. — Camille Desmoulins
Perhaps, therefore, it is odd that if there is any one phrase that is guaranteed to set me off it's when someone says to me,… — Richard Branson

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