Amber Quote by Marianne Moore

“He offered a better paraphrase one day when I was complaining about an entry: “Words are stubborn little fuckers.”

— Kory Stamper

“When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire…

— Marianne Moore

God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,

— George Herbert

Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well…

— Kenneth Rexroth

To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if…

— Mark Galli

I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars of the…

— Howard Zinn

“Socrates: " All I know is that I know nothing". Paraphrase: All I know is that I have nothing and others don't even have it.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative…

— Steven Weber

The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion of Jesus: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's." Bokonon's paraphrase was this: "Pay…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly…

— Walter Koenig

On the downside, to paraphrase Thom Yorke talking about the music business, we're still having to deal with the stench of the last fart…

— Edward Norton

“If we allow ourselves to be misled by the heresy of paraphrase, we run the risk of doing even more violence to the internal…

— Cleanth Brooks