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

I hate that phrase "the real world." Why is an aircraft factory more real than a university? Is it? — Richard Hugo

Hugo Chavez has tried to steal an inspiring phrase 'Patria o muerte, venceremos.' It does not belong to him. It belongs to a free Cuba. — Mitt Romney

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

Thoughts are ideas scattered in your head. When written forms a sentence. When rhymed, it forms a phrase and singing it blooms a beautiful poem. — Ymatruz

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

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true. — John Berger

I don't even like the phrase 'opportunity to sin' because it implies the opportunity to obey. — Geoffrey Wood

Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the effort to join reality with the apparition. — Yukio Mishima

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

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it. — Bette Davis

The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and distorts and changes. — Abi Morgan

What does that quote mean to you? Can you explain the concept behind it and not just repeat the pretty phrase to me? — S.A. Tawks

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

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

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

The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't have. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

It's amazing how much power a simple false phrase repeated can have. — Kinley MacGregor

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life. — Charles Sanders Peirce

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

Do you know what the costliest phrase in technology is? 'It will work because it would be cool if it did.' — Jean Louis

How to phrase it? Ma, I want to fall in love with a fella. — Larry Kramer

Every time you use the phrase all my life it has a different meaning. — George Carlin

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. — Al Gore

Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means. — Robert Kiyosaki

I had a slight hope the phrase 'spark joy' might become popular, as it was the keyword that I wanted to put forward in the first place. — Marie Kondo

He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself:
A day of dappled seaborne clouds. — James Joyce

Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us. — Cate Tiernan

I quickly became aware that the phrase "it can only get better" could very quickly turn into "it could always be worse," because it was. — Savannah Grace

The phrase surgical strike might be more acceptable if it were common practice to perform surgery with high explosives. — George Carlin

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Tadark, this phrase is probably meaningless to you as it is so oft repeated, but do be quiet. — Cayla Kluver

Stream of consciousness is a muddle-headed phrase. It is not a stream, it's a pool, a sea, an ocean. — Dorothy M. Richardson

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

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

You know why they invented the phrase 'case closed'?
What?
So that the audience would know it wasn't. — Glen Duncan

That first phrase-please bless me, Father, for I have sinned-was so humbling and so total, Matt always felt a kind of absolution as soon as he said it — Patricia McCormick

No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't tell a soul.'

'People who use that phrase are always the last to live up to it. — Agatha Christie

In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough. — Stephen Greenblatt

How do you say 'bring me sausage and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?"
"Look it up in the phrase book. — Regina Doman

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

Thank you' is a wonderful phrase. Use it. It will add stature to your soul. — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me. — Mark Twain

I felt my attention wandering off. It generally does at the phrase mere child. — Elaine Dundy

Every word, every phrase, wants to be in a sentence, when it is written for you. — M.F. Moonzajer

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

I believe the phrase you're looking for is 'too much money and not enough things to spend it on. — Elle Lothlorien

Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question. — Brian Tracy

Mentally ill. It's a phrase that once scared me, but now I wear it like an old jacket, comfortable but ugly. — Jenny Lawson

The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it's near. Midtongue. — Gillian Flynn

Was that the way to phrase it? Always have had. It was immortal tense. A new rule of grammar. Always have had gotten friends killed. — Hugh Howey

Caress your phrase tenderly; it will end by smiling at you. — Anatole France

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

It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death. — Richard K. Morgan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls. — Jim Woodring

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The problem is that "by now" is a phrase we say to ourselves when we're trying to believe the lie that it's too late to start pursuing our dream. — Jon Acuff

The phrase "having it all" has little to do with having what we want. — Jennifer Senior

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

You know that old phrase 'Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it'? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off. — Chuck Palahniuk

It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed. — Ismail Kadare

I don't like the phrase having it all. It implies we're being greedy, like "have a second piece of pie." — Kirsten Gillibrand

It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England. — Julie Burchill

The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little. — Raymond Chandler

'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means. — Joshua Prince-Ramus

Grievance into a succinct and pithy phrase, while mobilizing the people to combat it. Our slogan — Nelson Mandela

Todays uplifting phrase is love your body exactly as it is. Yout think it is imperfect and you're right, but its only goning to get worse. — Marian Keyes

Believe it or not, this simple phrase, "Yes! And . . ." is the secret of improv. — Amy Lisewski

Is this what Principal Fontana meant by the phrase 'well-rounded'?
It's fucking spherical, Catamounts. — Sam Lipsyte

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities. — Anton Seidl

In few other marketing activities does the phrase "the more things change, the more they remain the same" hold as much meaning as it does in search. — David Amerland

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

It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor? — Margaret Mitchell

My wife simply quoted, 'For better or worse.' It was only then that I realized the phrase was not multiple-choice. — Michael Gurnow