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What passes for an original opinion is, generally, merely an original phrase. Old lamps for new - yes; but it is always the same oil in the lamp.
— Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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
The universe does not work in phrases; don't focus on the commas; just wait for the full stop.
— Jude Idada
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
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
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
— Evelyn Waugh
And for those of you that dropped out of high school, remember the famous phrase: 'Do you want fries with that?'
— Bobby Heenan
It is not enough for the phrases to be good., what you make with them ought to be good too.
— Aldous Huxley
She liked the words; they satisfied her famine for phrases.
— William Dean Howells
Every sentence, every phrase, every word has to fight for its life.
— Crawford Kilian
An excellent precept for writers: Have a clear idea of all the phrases and expressions you need, and you will find them.
— Ximenes Doudan
For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase ...
— William Shakespeare
I've spent much of my life being attuned to watching for an image or a phrase that can trigger what might be a poem - could become a poem.
— Pattiann Rogers
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
Tragic phrases comfort the heart ... Without them, sorrow would be too heavy for men to bear.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.
— John Dewey
The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.
— Kate Christensen
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
The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.
— Jasper Fforde
That's how I gained a lifelong fondness for repeating certain phrases beyond the point of all reason.
— Roger Ebert
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