Phrases Quotes

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If you start with a good idea, you can encapsulate it in a phrase and explain it. I like high-concept films. Everyone can get hold… — Jane Campion
You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was… — Michael Fassbender
When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few… — Tom Glazer
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm… — Barry Hannah
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple… — Marilyn Hacker
For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase... — William Shakespeare
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age. — Baz Luhrmann
Stop, would you kindly? 'Would you kindly'. Powerful phrase. Familiar phrase? Sit, would you kindly? Stand, would you kindly? Run! Stop! Turn. A man chooses,… — Andrew Ryan
Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is not moody or… — Brennan Manning
There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's… — Abraham Verghese
I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't… — Stephen Dillane
I'm not that good looking. That's why 'Gangnam Style' works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it's just awkward. But if someone like me uses… — Unknown Author
There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly. — Bill Forsyth
[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought… — William Matthews
Two of my favorite phrases to repeat to myself daily are 'Life is perfect' and 'I am grateful'. The more I do, the better I… — Hal Elrod
The scientist is not much given to talking of the riddle of the universe. "Riddle" is not a scientific term. The conception of a riddle… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz
I think, then, there's the sort of, like, political dimension to lyrics. One of the problems that I've had with my output as a lyric… — J. Robbins
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never… — Margaret Kennedy
Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The… — William Faulkner
An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all… — Leigh Hunt
Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness. — Stephen King
Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical… — Paul Tillich

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