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Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story — Saul Bass

I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.' — Kevin James

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head. — Brian Eno

A Russian imbues his polite things with a heartiness, both of phrase and expression, that compels belief in their sincerity. — Mark Twain

I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder and just write around that. — Bucky Pope

HAVING IT ALL." Perhaps the greatest trap ever set for women was the coining of this phrase. — Sheryl Sandberg

I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key. — Shane McCrae

I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing. — Jim Morrison

Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'. — Eddie Condon

There is a phrase in Chinese, 'Resolve is victory.' — Yao Ming

If every word introduces a new concept, the simple phrase "all that which does not exist" is sufficient to make everything that does not exist, exist. — Pablo Tusset

To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it. — Pope Francis

They all memorized a simple phrase, "Be helpful, be useful, be scarce. — Damian Wampler

What?!" Auburn says into the phone. "What kind of secret phrase is 'pencil dick'? — Colleen Hoover

Hesternal, I remembered, meant, "pertaining to yesterday." I was nodding over the rest of the phrase — Alan Bradley

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. — Henry Fielding

Pure potentiality is a phrase that denotes that pure consciousness is the true essence that lies in us. — Stephen Richards

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern. — Benjamin Disraeli

Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive ... — Lucille Kallen

The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase. — Noam Chomsky

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

Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives. — Tom Peters

It's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier. — William Safire

And I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like 'cultural genocide' just speaks to how bright he is. — Robert Downey Jr.

I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it. — Jack Kent Cooke

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. — C.P. Snow

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

Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me. — Sam Neill

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

It's not that simple." "Ah! That phrase is Male for 'I'm afraid to. — Karl Schroeder

-the phrase "lion's share" here means "the biggest part" and has nothing to do with lions or sharing- — Lemony Snicket

Governments have a favorite phrase: "lean and mean." But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests. — Vandana Shiva

The phrase "timing is everything" is never more true than in your walk with God - HIS timing is everything. — Stormie O'martian

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, I told you so. — Lord Byron

I love you and you understand what that phrase means to me. I don't say it ... to anyone ... ever. — S.C. Stephens

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

Shannon used a phrase he had never used before: information theory. — James Gleick

Zen phrase says The instant you speak about a thing you miss the mark. — Fritjof Capra

Perhaps it is a secret yearning of all Hallmark employees to use the phrase 'you big fat pain in the butt' in an anniversary card. — Stephan Pastis

An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which. — G. E. M. Anscombe

You don't deserve this, Brian. I wanted to shove that phrase into his heart. But I knew he'd always believe that he did deserve what he got. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means. — Bill Halter

Die Luft der Freiheit weht (The wind of freedom stirs). Since 1906, that obscure German phrase has encircled the Stanford Tree in the school emblem. — Greg Steinmetz

Hans then asked him about painting from nature; Jackson ... bluntly offered a phrase that entered Village lore, I am nature. — Ross Wetzsteon

I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase. — Ezra Furman

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

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

To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences. — Nancy Pearcey

That was his phrase - "the high ramparts of my defensiveness"- and I remembered it in case I ever decide to build and then describe my own ramparts. — Brock Clarke

He liked the phrase "mother's tit." It said so much, so simply. Momma's tit had a good deal more power to move these men than her apple pie. — Clive Barker

At YC we have this public phrase, and it's relentlessly resourceful. — Sam Altman

"Papa" referred to Frank five times as: " ... the blood son of Dr. Felix Hoenikker."
The phrase reeked of cannibalism. — Kurt Vonnegut

You know the most common phrase in the movies is 'let's get out of here? — Hannah Lillith Assadi

Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot - like an echo from history, still very alive. — Sara Sheridan

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

I hate that phrase: move on. Like no matter what happened or what you did, you just "move on," and that's supposed to make everything all right. — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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

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

Well, I guess my unease with that is ... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what? — David Sanborn

Did you know that if you re-arrange the letters in 'mother-in-law' you can create the phrase 'woman Hitler'?
Holly from Secrets — Sara Daniell

Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril. — Woodrow Wilson

I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this. — Rush Limbaugh

He hurried the phrase 'educated at Oxord,' or swallowed it, or choked on it, as though it had bothered him before. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Had he made loud, passionate love with his lovers? Is that why he used the phrase loud, passionate love?" -Arelia — Kira Saito

'Es cor meum,' he murmured, his eyes dancing over my face.
Though I'd never heard the phrase, I responded: 'Ut tu meus.' As you are mine. — T.J. Klune

Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know. — John Donne

Silas straightened in his seat, clearly uneasy. "This is so bad for my asthma," he said, the familiar phrase coming from him startling her. — Kim Harrison

In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.' — Benjamin Graham

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. — Golda Meir

He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase. — Don Hewitt

The phrase "work-life balance" tells us that people think that work is the opposite of life. We should be talking about life-life balance. — Patrick Dixon

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

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

But that was too harsh a phrase - could depend so — Virginia Woolf

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

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

The phrase "a little genetic test" strikes me as an oxymoron. — Veronica Roth

I have an idea that the phrase "the weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm. - OGDEN NASH — Daniel G. Amen

I don't know how to phrase this exactly but what the fuck? — Lev Grossman

I would like to be remembered, well ... the Mexicans have a phrase, "Feo fuerte y formal". Which means he was ugly, strong and had dignity. — John Wayne

The phrase 'Boys will be boys,' reflects that a male child is expected to be unpredictable and occasionally troublesome. — Kilroy J. Oldster

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

There are few things more powerful than a name. A single phrase that somehow becomes a symbol for an entire existence. — Lance Conrad

He used the haunting phrase, Alas for what has been lost. — Mitch Albom

The "coffee break" - as a phrase and concept - was invented in 1952 by the Pan American Coffee Bureau. It quickly became a part of the language, as — Mark Pendergrast

Ceviche is an acquired taste, a phrase which here means something you don't like the first few times you eat it ... — Lemony Snicket

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo. — Arthur Smith

I didn't just come in on a load of turnips! — Phillip C. McGraw

Four men killed that day. The phrase sat up in Willie's head like a rat and made a nest for itself there — Sebastian Barry

The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature-is comparative time. — Yehuda Amichai

In England you have a good phrase. It is 'to bring the game into disrepute. — Arsene Wenger

If the women's movement can be summed up in a single phrase, it is 'the right to choose'. — Beatrice Faust

She wasn't speaking to me - in the juvenile, petty sense of the phrase. — Stephenie Meyer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset ... there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'. — Albert Schweitzer

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far. — Miranda Richardson

When in Rome; burn it. — Iain M. Banks

Everyone is familiar with the phrase 'It's not what you know, it's who you know' and that's because it's so often true. You — Enterprise Nation

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase. — Horace

Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase. — Nella Larsen