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[T]he hidden linguistic universe of companianate couples ... rests entirely on one generative phrase: 'Would you please stop doing that. — Laura Kipnis

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

One of the most useful pieces of advice we've learned in our journalism careers is summed up in the phrase "beware the fallacy of evil men. — Bill Kovach

One phrase summarizes the horror of hell. "God isn't there." — Max Lucado

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
— Henri Frederic Amiel

To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left. — Lemony Snicket

In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.' — P. J. O'Rourke

And then there was one nonsense phrase he said near constant. Sounded like 'Cat hoodoo fat hag hen! — David Bain

The nice word for you is methodical. Obsessive-compulsive is the meaner phrase, and one you've truly earned. — Claire Kendal

Love at first sight is a polite phrase used when one wants to fuck a stranger. — Sheeja Jose

One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. — Alan Price

Silence asks the questions that are too awkward to phrase. It even asks the questions one does not know to ask. — Robin Hobb

Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another thing entirely to execute it. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Bulgarian phrase zryala vuzrast, ripe age, which they use for the period before one is truly old. She — Garth Greenwell

It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility. — Bill Frisell

I don't love the phrase 'balancing work and family.' It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side. — Norah O'Donnell

A writer's high doesn't come from thinking about the end result, only of the moment, one word, one sentence, one phrase at a time. — C.J. Heck

There is no such thing as a perfect phrase, or a private language, and . . . time only runs the one way. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Whenever you hear news about jobless claims or the unemployment rate, you should translate that in your mind to one simple phrase: Stay in school. — Adam Davidson

The phrase "spiritual journey" is one that I've only become familiar with comparatively recently. We wouldn't have put it like that when I was a kid. — N. T. Wright

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny ... — Isaac Asimov

And for the first time in their existence, their mean, unhappy lives became happy and meaningful because of one simple phrase ... LOVE. — The Beatles

The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.' — Harvey Ball

A man won't buy the cow when he can get the milk for free phrase my momma used to say has popped into my head one, maybe two million times — Eric Jerome Dickey

Is there any phrase more ominous than you need to see exactly what you've done? I couldn't think of one offhand. — Stephen King

Make love! He disliked the phrase. Could one make love? — Pearl S. Buck

How beautiful that after 2,000 years, no one can outdo "God is love." It's the most perfectly concise, hopeful phrase in history. — Mark Hart

Why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase
'I love you — F Scott Fitzgerald

Whoever coined the phrase, killing two birds with one stone, not only hated birds but also thought we needed to conserve stones. — Dana Gould

If I hear the phrase "selfie" one more time, I'll have to enroll myself in anger management classes. — Rebecca McNutt

The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything. — Ernest Hemingway,

To be described is to be seduced. Shit. One turn of phrase. One thing noticed that she'd never noticed. It works always. — Dave Eggers

Every single one of us who has been a 'Woman in Film' for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase 'Women in Film.' — Lynda Obst

The phrase onenight stand is a misnomer. There is no such thing as a onenight stand. Sometimes, what you do for one night destroys your future. — Anonymous

I had one of those flashes - the sea-glass feel of a well-worn phrase. — Olivia Sudjic

Walls tagged with graffiti (one such piece of tagging: a stencil of a familiar Sith Lord's helmet with the phrase beneath it reading VADER LIVES). — Chuck Wendig

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

The phrase 'Someone ought to do something' was not, by itself, a helpful one. People who used it never added the rider 'and that someone is me'. — Terry Pratchett

After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold. — Virginia Woolf

One phrase you don't want kicking off your obituary is, Never, in the long history of bungee jumping ... — Dana Gould

If there's one phrase you will hear over and over from me, it's this: A strong butt is key to a happy running life. — Jordan Metzl

If we have to sum up the Book of Revelation in one phrase, it would be, 'Jesus wins.' — Jud Wilhite

The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me. — Kate Christensen

I suggest we embrace the phrase, "I don't know." It seems to get a bad rap, but "I don't know" is a respectable answer when one "doesn't know — Guy P. Harrison

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking. — John Dewey