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So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said.
— Philip Wylie
I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.
— Jim Morrison
I think you remember certain phrases from bad reviews. You don't remember all the bad reviews.
— John Updike
Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive ...
— Lucille Kallen
She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.
— Rumi
A technique I developed quite naturally to help me make smooth transitions was to use a word or phrase from the next routine in the preceding one.
— Franklyn Ajaye
No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.
— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
I realised that all this talk was of no value and at its best only led to clever phrases.
— Hermann Hesse
A meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I look upon fine phrases as a lover. - John Keats
— Beatrice K. Otto
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged.
— Witold Gombrowicz
A truce to idle phrases!
— Aristophanes
The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.
— George Will
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Let's be about it, people.
— David Weber
Repetition for no reason is a sign of carelessness or pretentiousness, but there are plenty of good reasons to repeat words and phrases.
— Steven Millhauser
Do you know what the costliest phrase in technology is? 'It will work because it would be cool if it did.'
— Jean Louis
We do not think in words and phrases. We think only in pictures and/or images. Words are the raw materials of thought.
— David J. Schwartz
Governments have a favorite phrase: "lean and mean." But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests.
— Vandana Shiva
The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words.
— Anna Akhmatova
Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.
— Noam Chomsky
Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages.
— Michelle C. Hillstrom
Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart.
— Herbert Lockyer
Human experience is usually paradoxical, if that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
— George Eliot
And for those of you that dropped out of high school, remember the famous phrase: 'Do you want fries with that?'
— Bobby Heenan
The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.
— Jeff Greenfield
You are never listening to what someone is saying, you are only ever listening to what you are hearing
— Julia Heywood
Most damning of phrases: He meant well.
— Laurie R. King
Sugar, the things we hold closest to our hearts are the things we just can't seem to see. Jackson Whalen
— Suzanne Palmieri
That's how I gained a lifelong fondness for repeating certain phrases beyond the point of all reason.
— Roger Ebert
I feel sorry for myself. To let me be myself for some period of time and found out that all of her phrases wont make any difference.
— Ariel Seraphino
If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases,there's something wrong with your argument. — Maurice Saatchi
For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.
— Jasper Fforde
This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.
— John Drinkwater
You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.
— Herbie Hancock
After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.
— Virginia Woolf
They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.
— Charles Mingus
I don't like the phrase having it all. It implies we're being greedy, like "have a second piece of pie."
— Kirsten Gillibrand
Please phrase your answer in the form of a question.
— Alex Trebek
I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.
— Virginia Woolf
I walk making up phrases; sit, contriving scenes; am in short in the thick of the greatest rapture known to me.
— Virginia Woolf
Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.
— John Donne
These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.
— Claude M. Bristol
the pain that underlies all pain: the pain that we are all, as Rilke phrases it, "unutterably alone.
— Julia Cameron
Case closed, game over, zip up your fly.
— Stephen King
If the women's movement can be summed up in a single phrase, it is 'the right to choose'.
— Beatrice Faust
You can't really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
— Steve Martin
Words and phrases grew only slowly
— Henri Cole
There has never been a poet able to heal with words, nor accurately express with phrases, the pain of missing a lost loved one.
— Steve Maraboli
I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases ...
— Jimmy Buffett
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
— Woodrow Wilson
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
— Denis Diderot
She had long since lost the sense of her dresses and skirts and blouses; they were rote phrases of rayon and cotton that she daily intoned.
— Michael Chabon
Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains ...
— Virginia Woolf
Second-century Christian thinker Athenagoras wrote, Our life does not consist in making up beautiful phrases but in performing beautiful deeds.
— Shane Claiborne
Male philosophers coin phrases 'virtue is its own reward'
and female workers embody them. — Mary Jo Weaver
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
— Aristophanes
I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I don't analyze too much, because then I'll question, 'Why do I write down all of these random little phrases?'
— Sue Tompkins
Don't be ridiculous. Only one of the most condescending phrases in the English language ... and
— Christine Pope
The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.
— Mose Allison
An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which.
— G. E. M. Anscombe
I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.
— Jack White
Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.
— W. Somerset Maugham
We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray; But dim or clear, we own in Him The life, the truth, the way.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
I use not casual phrases but imagistic phrases that create a rhythm of natural presence.
— Gerald Vizenor
Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life.
— Robert C. Solomon
I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.
— Mignon McLaughlin
In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.
— Willis Regier