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