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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

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying. — David Antin

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

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

Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors,
I want burning, burning, burning. — Rumi

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

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

Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men. — William Wordsworth

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

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

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

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

It seemed to me that these months of watching and listening, second-guessing words and phrases, seeking so much that was new, had somehow changed me. — Sara Sheridan

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

It's not often that I get to remember and use phrases like "on out my farm" or "powerful ugly" in modern scripts. — Mark Waid

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

Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Whoever came up with that phrase I wanted his greasy head on a silver platt — Sean Paul

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

One of the phrases I frequently look for is infinite learning curve.Because each entrepreneurial pattern is to some degree unique and new. — Reid Hoffman

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

One of the monks was doing something incomprehensible at the altar, and the others would occasionally chant a few phrases of mumbo jumbo. — Ken Follett

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

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

But I spoke passionately at the rallies; inspired by phrases I had read in novels and poems, I would weave words together into sounds of revolution. — Azar Nafisi

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

Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything. — Sean Connery

The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases. — Paul Claudel

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

They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends. — Thomas Hardy

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

The early cars already are drawing deep breaths past my door. And last night's phrases sick with lack of basis are still writhing on my floor. — Fiona Apple

She acquired a lifetime aversion to the phrases bless your heart and poor dears. — Gloria Steinem

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

The phrases and language used everyday in an organization can in fact affect the way your team makes decisions and conducts themselves. — Kevin Allen

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 collect words and phrases for naming the children of my brush. — Gene Black

Two of my favorite phrases to repeat to myself daily are 'Life is perfect' and 'I am grateful'. The more I do, the better I feel. Try it for yourself! — Hal Elrod

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

Breathe slumbrous music round me, sweet and slow,To honied phrases set!Into the land of dreams I long to go.Bid me forget! — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases. — Virginia Woolf