Phrases Quotes

769 Phrases quotes by 619 unique authors

And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room to grow, so… — Andrew Clements
The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time. — Kate DiCamillo
When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the… — George Orwell
My city. I pondered that phrase, wondered why Barrons felt that way. He never said “our world.” He always said “your world.” But he called… — Karen Marie Moning
WARNING: The following is a transcript of a digital recording. In certain places, the audio quality was poor, so some words and phrases represent the… — Rick Riordan
Betty died of a broken heart. Some people laugh when they hear that phrase, but that's because they don't know anything about the world. People… — Paul Auster
When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases. — Virginia Woolf
Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if you've spoken or… — Muriel Barbery
I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title "Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else… — Deborah Harkness
There wasn't a colloquial phrase, or curse, that went something like, "May your day be full of angry dragons" or, "May every dragon you meet… — Michelle Sagara
...people like to say things like 'all work is prostitution'. Most work is exploitation, but most work is not prostitution. Prostitution is prostitution, a very… — Michelle Tea
On the board was a list of words and phrases which her mother considered not suitable for use in college T-shirt design. She had been… — Hilary McKay
I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' anything or not. In a way I… — Philip Larkin
Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing… — John Green
What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time.… — David Levithan
Tick, tock,” whispers Wiress. I guide her in front of me and get her to lie down, stroking her arm to soothe her. She drifts… — Suzanne Collins
...He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases. — Thomas Bernhard
Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do… — Virginia Woolf
We dream — it is good we are dreaming — It would hurt us — were we awake — But since it is playing —… — Emily Dickinson
I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy. — Daniel Handler
I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair. — Simone de Beauvoir
I would do anything for you. Anything." With that, he pushed his way out...and as the door eased shut, she realized that I love you… — J R Ward
It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious. Life is… — E. M. Forster
You'll often hear the phrase "science doesn't know everything." Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean… — Stephen Fry
I had always imagined Rosa Parks as a stately woman with a bold temperament, someone who could easily stand up to a busload of glowering… — Susan Cain

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