Phrase Quotes
624 Phrase quotes by 519 unique authors
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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
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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
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The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society
— Roy Jenkins
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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
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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
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If I had a brick for every time I’ve repeated the phrase Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value, I think I’d probably be able to bridge…
— Ray Kroc
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them.…
— Rollo May
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Nudity is a state of fact; lewdity, to coin a phrase, is a state of mind
— Paul Outerbridge
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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
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I'm an aspiring writer. I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.
— Jack Black
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