Phrases Quotes

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That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics. — Alan Moore
Desperate times call for desperate measures" is an aphorism which here means "sometimes you need to change your facial expression in order to create a… — Daniel Handler
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a… — George Orwell
To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left. — Daniel Handler
Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter,… — Thomas Pynchon
If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation… — William Strunk, Jr.
It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world,… — Clive Barker
There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of… — George Orwell
it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom — Paul Auster
There's unconditional love there. You hear that phrase a lot but it's real with me and her [June Carter]. She loves me in spite of… — Johnny Cash
There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Here's a phrase that apparently the airlines simply made up: near miss. They say that if 2 planes almost collide, it's a near miss. Bullshit,… — George Carlin
He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds. — James Joyce
France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you… — Mark Twain
And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I… — Graham Greene
It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed. — Ismail KadarÃ©
That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like… — Sarah Vowell
They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm.… — A. S. Byatt
[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining… — Douglas Adams
There was no pretention here, no hidden meanings in the phrases they spoke, no elaborate plans designed to impress the other. Though it had always… — Nicholas Sparks
Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace… — Daniel Handler
Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit… — Janette Rallison
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a… — George Orwell

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