Phrases Quotes

769 Phrases quotes by 619 unique authors

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase… — Hunter S. Thompson
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography. — John Updike
No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human… — Alfred de Vigny
There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.' — Ayelet Waldman
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. — Evelyn Waugh
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true. — H.G. Wells
A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the… — George Edward Woodberry
For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting. — Haruki Murakami
Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?" Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads. — Darren Shan
She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at… — John Irving
It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to… — Wilferd Peterson
If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that… — Stephen Fry
…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or… — Charles Dickens
How do you say 'bring me sausage and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?" "Look it up in the phrase book. — Regina Doman
Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological… — Dan Simmons
People speak because they are afraid of silence. They speak mechanically whether aloud or to themselves. They are intoxicated by this vocal gruel that ensnares… — AndreÃ¯ Makine
Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace. — William Shakespeare
Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases… — Marcel Proust
But we are living in a skeptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age; and sometimes I fear that this new generation,… — James Joyce
The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated discussion classes. I… — John Green
For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action,… — Ralph Ellison
It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a… — Gabrielle Zevin
Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them… — Philip Roth
When a phrase is born, it is both good and bad at the same time. The secret of its success rests in a crux that… — Isaac Babel
why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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