Phrases Quotes
769 Phrases quotes by 619 unique authors
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You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will…
— Sergey Brin
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It's always funny to me when people use the phrase 'Best guitar player in the world'. There are too many variables such as technique, uniqueness,…
— Steve Vai
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The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I…
— Rita Dove
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You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could do nothing. But…
— Steven Brust
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I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the…
— James Hillman
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You can still have chemistry on screen without getting on with the person. But it just makes your job a lot easier if you don't…
— Hugh Dancy
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The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society
— Roy Jenkins
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I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one.…
— Joe Strummer
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People are bringing SHOTGUNS to UFO sightings...brings a whole new meaning to that phrase 'You ain't from around here, ar'ya?'
— Bill Hicks
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People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out…
— Vladimir Lenin
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My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does…
— Frank Miller
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If I had a brick for every time I’ve repeated the phrase Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value, I think I’d probably be able to bridge…
— Ray Kroc
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Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Whoever came up with that phrase I wanted his greasy head on…
— Sean Paul
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The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use the search engine…
— Terence McKenna
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I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as…
— Roger Martin
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Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.
— Jeannette Walls
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You remember all those phrases about how these people - Asians - dont value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time…
— Neil Sheehan
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Potential does not always ensure success. The greatest players have not always been the most endowed. In athletics, we often hear the phrase, "He has…
— LaVell Edwards
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Sometimes I see players that think, and you can tell they're thinking of the next phrase to play or the next thing to do, the…
— Sonny Sharrock
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Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive…
— Nina Simone
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Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion'. Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
— Salman Rushdie
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The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we have all manner…
— Laura Bush
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Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete;…
— Strobe Talbott
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The spirit of a people, its cultural level, its social structure, the deeds its policy may prepare—all this and more is written in its fiscal…
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears…
— Lucretius
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