Phrases Quotes

769 Phrases quotes by 619 unique authors

There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was… — Peter S. Beagle
People have a good time with all the catch phrases. — Verne Troyer
These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind. — Claude M. Bristol
Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the… — Linda Lingle
I mangle phrases constantly. The other day I was chatting with my boyfriend and I said to him, 'He really sold him under the bus.'… — Cristin Milioti
I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor.' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was in the theater… — Eric McCormack
Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one… — Mary Catherine Bateson
Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first! — Anne McCaffrey
When all the words have been written, and all the phrases have been spoken, the great mystery of life will still remain. We may map… — Kent Nerburn
Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and we used the… — Gerhard Richter
The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come… — John Steinbeck
Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity. — Henry Watson Fowler
I don't use the phrase 'I love you' very often, but I say it every time I talk to my children. — George Hamilton
Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite… — Nicholson Baker
My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that… — Miranda Richardson
There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase...… — Afrika Bambaataa
There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves… — Emmanuelle Beart
Ric Flair is one of the most entertaining guys to sit down with and by entertaining I don't mean he has catchy phrases, but that… — John Cena
Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has… — P. Chidambaram
Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase… — Stanley Crouch
Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to… — John Abercrombie
I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs. — Mose Allison
There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an… — Ryan Adams
People can try to eat the correct things, take the correct amount of exercise, worry less and so forth. But in the end fate or… — Peter Dickens
I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And it's not the… — Jane Campion

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