Phrases Quotes

769 Phrases quotes by 619 unique authors

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception. — Marianne Faithfull
Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial.… — Mark Haddon
The best timed joke or the best timed phrase comes at spontaneous moments and just relies on me as the host to be very quick,… — Steve Harvey
I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.' — Kevin James
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this. — Rush Limbaugh
Obama wants people, as many people as he can get, covered by the government, exchanges, however you want to phrase it, and the more the… — Rush Limbaugh
Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially… — Harvey Mackay
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only… — W. Somerset Maugham
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. — Golda Meir
The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.' — Unknown Author
People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.' — Dylan Moran
Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story. — Jeanne Moreau
There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly… — P.J. O'Rourke
I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of… — Susan Orlean
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. — George Orwell
You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has… — Colin Powell
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. — Alan Price
Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do… — Dan Quayle
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it.… — Ronald Reagan
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the… — Carl Rogers
It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never… — Gene Simmons
After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid… — Arthur Smith
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe… — Stendhal

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