Phrases Quotes

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What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and… — Jack Vance
Romanian? That's impressive," said Jace. "Not many people speak it." "Do you?" Sebastian asked with interest. "Not really," Jace said with a smile so disarming… — Cassandra Clare
She was nervous about the future; it made her indelicate. She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time --because she could… — Djuna Barnes
You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases. — Aldous Huxley
I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The… — Paulo Coelho
Sometimes, your eyes see something your brain doesn't. You pick up a nmewspaper and yourhead gives you a phrase that you didn't consciously read yet.… — Maggie Stiefvater
Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness,… — John Wesley
No man can sincerely resolve to apply to his daily life the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth without sensing a change in his own nature.… — David O. McKay
It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was… — Virginia Woolf
Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas.… — Sharon M. Draper
All of her heart, a meaningless phrase, but correct and precise, too. She used her heart to love him, not her head, and not her… — Charles Yu
I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is… — Cecelia Ahern
The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die… — Raymond Chandler
Off with you" is a phrase used by people who lack the curtesy to say something more polite, such as, "if there's nothing else you… — Daniel Handler
Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey. — J D Salinger
I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases... — Jimmy Buffett
They had reached Lockhart's classroom...'You could've fried an egg on your face" said Ron. 'You'd better hope Creevey doesn't meet Ginny, or they'll be starting… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Also, when on a campaign to convince a stranger that you aren't a few fries short of a Happy Meal, throwing around phrases like "tangentially… — Maureen Johnson
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of… — Oscar Wilde
...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some of his phrases.… — E. Lockhart
The right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing” is a phrase that refers to times when people ought to know, but don’t know,… — Daniel Handler
But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory. — Virginia Woolf
I peeked up at him one more time, and regretted it. He was glaring down at me again, his black eyes full of revulsion. As… — Stephenie Meyer
The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the wrong crowd," but for the wrong crowd,… — John Green

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