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It's not actually that hard to be an expert on Iran. You only need to know two phrases: "I don't know" and "it depends.
— Kenneth Pollack
So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said.
— Philip Wylie
The beginning of a novel: start a subject, no matter where, and to have the desire to finish, start with very beautiful phrases.
— Charles Baudelaire
When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.
— Jack Smith
Phrases of neatness, cosiness, and comfort can never be an answer to the sphinx's riddle.
— William James
Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men.
— William Wordsworth
Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.
— Henry Watson Fowler
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
— John Updike
No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.
— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
I realised that all this talk was of no value and at its best only led to clever phrases.
— Hermann Hesse
A meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.
— Barbara Kingsolver
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged.
— Witold Gombrowicz
Well, within a phrase. And with a series of phrases, you can certainly create the effect of diminuendo and crescendo, no question.
— Mahan Esfahani
Repetition for no reason is a sign of carelessness or pretentiousness, but there are plenty of good reasons to repeat words and phrases.
— Steven Millhauser
We do not think in words and phrases. We think only in pictures and/or images. Words are the raw materials of thought.
— David J. Schwartz
Governments have a favorite phrase: "lean and mean." But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests.
— Vandana Shiva
Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.
— Noam Chomsky
Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages.
— Michelle C. Hillstrom
Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.
— Oscar Wilde
Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties.
— Muriel Spark
Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart.
— Herbert Lockyer
And for those of you that dropped out of high school, remember the famous phrase: 'Do you want fries with that?'
— Bobby Heenan
She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
— Elizabeth Taylor
Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I'm tortured by.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.
— John Donne
Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure.
— Phyllis McGinley
The old phrases crack and meaning shakes out wet and new.
— Nadine Gordimer
I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases ...
— Jimmy Buffett
An excellent precept for writers: Have a clear idea of all the phrases and expressions you need, and you will find them.
— Ximenes Doudan
You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.
— Aldous Huxley
I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires.
— Deborah Harkness
Words and phrases grew only slowly
— Henri Cole
A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.
— Storm Jameson
Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.
— Thomas Nashe
Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake.
— Raymond Chandler
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter ...
— Nikki Giovanni
They were interchangeable tools, and the catchy phrases continued without abatement.
— Robert A. Caro
She had long since lost the sense of her dresses and skirts and blouses; they were rote phrases of rayon and cotton that she daily intoned.
— Michael Chabon
A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you get.
— Catherine The Great
And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors.
— Gustave Flaubert
Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.
— Isaac Asimov
Male philosophers coin phrases 'virtue is its own reward'
and female workers embody them. — Mary Jo Weaver
He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases.
— Thomas Bernhard
Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.
— William Fleming
I feel sorry for myself. To let me be myself for some period of time and found out that all of her phrases wont make any difference.
— Ariel Seraphino
Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Don't be ridiculous. Only one of the most condescending phrases in the English language ... and
— Christine Pope
If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases,there's something wrong with your argument. — Maurice Saatchi
You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.
— Herbie Hancock
This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.
— John Drinkwater
For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.
— Jasper Fforde
I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.
— Mose Allison
Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.
— William Congreve
These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.
— Claude M. Bristol
People will kill you over time. And how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases like 'be realistic'.
— Dylan Moran
The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation.
— John Dos Passos
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
— Aristophanes
Eventually you'll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you've copped and begin to put your own mark on them
— Eddie Van Halen
I know all the new phrases: 'cowabunga,' 'radical,' cat's pajamas,' 'duh,' and 'hey, homie don't play that.
— Si Robertson
I to my friends, to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken.
— Virginia Woolf
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
In 5 minutes, 1 minute and many other phrases most of them are a lie..., but why do we say them?
— Deyth Banger
