Phrase Quotes

624 Phrase quotes by 519 unique authors

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the… — James Hillman
You can still have chemistry on screen without getting on with the person. But it just makes your job a lot easier if you don't… — Hugh Dancy
The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society — Roy Jenkins
I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one.… — Joe Strummer
People are bringing SHOTGUNS to UFO sightings...brings a whole new meaning to that phrase 'You ain't from around here, ar'ya?' — Bill Hicks
If I had a brick for every time Iâ€™ve repeated the phrase Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value, I think Iâ€™d probably be able to bridge… — Ray Kroc
Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Whoever came up with that phrase I wanted his greasy head on… — Sean Paul
The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use the search engine… — Terence McKenna
I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as… — Roger Martin
Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer. — Jeannette Walls
Potential does not always ensure success. The greatest players have not always been the most endowed. In athletics, we often hear the phrase, "He has… — LaVell Edwards
Sometimes I see players that think, and you can tell they're thinking of the next phrase to play or the next thing to do, the… — Sonny Sharrock
Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion'. Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect. — Salman Rushdie
Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete;… — Strobe Talbott
I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'a long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history,… — Romeo LeBlanc
My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain uses of the… — Neil Postman
Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement â€“ or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them.… — Rollo May
Nudity is a state of fact; lewdity, to coin a phrase, is a state of mind — Paul Outerbridge
Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written… — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
I'm an aspiring writer. I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not. — Jack Black

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