Phrases Quotes

769 Phrases quotes by 619 unique authors

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase. — Horace
Hugo Chavez has tried to steal an inspiring phrase 'Patria o muerte, venceremos.' It does not belong to him. It belongs to a free Cuba. — Mitt Romney
My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, 'Are these snakes poisonous?' and 'But you look much too young to be a police… — Cassandra Clare
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases… — Benjamin Disraeli
It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as… — Walter Bagehot
I do feel as if I'm living a blessed life at the moment. I've been thinking about the phrase 'living a dream,' because that's exactly… — Katherine Jenkins
If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit. — Jan Garbarek
Now I've heard the phrase 'there's no such thing as an ugly baby' but that is an ugly baby! — Shawn Michaels
Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a… — Michael Faraday
A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to… — Jean Francois Revel
Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes it costs many… — John William Draper
The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats'… — Brad Blanton
There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading… — Camille Paglia
One of the most common words in the invalidating, self-blaming stories we believe about ourselves or our situations is the word "should." The psychologist Albert… — William Hudson O'Hanlon
I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing. — Charles Dickens
Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and… — Benjamin Disraeli
ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.... — Nikki Giovanni
The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly… — Robert Jay Lifton
Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the… — Alexander Smith
I don't understand this phrase 'I've paid my dues.' We didn't have any money and lived on peanut butter and jelly, and I loved it.… — Ronnie Van Zant
I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner. — Stephen King
The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to… — Walter Lippmann
Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language,… — Michel de Montaigne
Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation. — Oscar Wilde

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