Phrases Quotes

769 Phrases quotes by 619 unique authors

A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear… — Miles Davis
I dont love the phrase balancing work and family. It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family… — Norah O'Donnell
I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version,… — Barbara Brown Taylor
And for those of you that dropped out of high school, remember the famous phrase: 'Do you want fries with that?' — Bobby Heenan
In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough. — Stephen Greenblatt
There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the… — Donald Rumsfeld
Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars.… — Salman Rushdie
We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands… — Constantin Stanislavski
When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than… — Jacob Bronowski
In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'. — Sam Ewing
Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying. — David Antin
We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a… — Edward Abbey
A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill… — Alexander Hamilton
It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice,… — Plutarch
A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist.… — Isaac Babel
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light. — Clive James
Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it.… — Robert Creeley
If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were the people who… — Ayn Rand
People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche. — E. V. Lucas
The phrase 'nature and nurture' is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of which personality is… — Francis Galton
Great communication depends on two simple skills-context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery, which allows a… — John C. Maxwell
I hope the guy who came up with the phrase 'sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll' rots in hell, I'd like to change it so… — Gene Simmons
I have a lot of friends who are getting married. I try to avoid talking to them about their sex lives now 'cause it's so… — Ted Alexandro
Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word. — Richard Allington

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