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I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'
— Kevin James
HAVING IT ALL." Perhaps the greatest trap ever set for women was the coining of this phrase.
— Sheryl Sandberg
I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.
— Jim Morrison
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.
— John Donne
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
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
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
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
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
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
