Phrases Quotes

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I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were… — Octavio Paz
Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled,… — Anais Nin
The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious. — Kay Redfield Jamison
Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came… — Evelyn Waugh
The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide… — W. Somerset Maugham
If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and… — Daniel Handler
Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock
In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so arrogantly ignorant that… — David James Duncan
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost… — Chris Abani
The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of… — Aleister Crowley
What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution… — Thomas Sowell
It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor? — Margaret Mitchell
Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on… — Graham Greene
Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m… — Bret Easton Ellis
The early cars already are drawing deep breaths past my door. And last night's phrases sick with lack of basis are still writhing on my… — Fiona Apple
Sam Vimes could parallel process. Most husbands can. They learn to follow their own line of thought while at the same time listening to what… — Terry Pratchett
O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased, For… — Edgar Allan Poe
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature… — Rachel Carson
They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares. — Joseph Conrad
I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful… — Flannery O'Connor
I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever going to write.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
So you are a vampire." "I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a common phrase, such a cliche, and so unflattering. I… — Margaret Stohl
Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase "at the end of the day"--football managers, estate agents, salesmen of… — Zadie Smith
A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could… — Anais Nin

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