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Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word. — Richard Allington

I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing. — Jim Morrison

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

It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making. — Susan Sontag

She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her. — Rumi

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

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

It doesn't phaze, I amaze wit my phrases
Play this in your Jeep, so your neighbors lose some sleep
(I wanna thank you) — Del Tha Funkee Homosapien

I should have" is one of the most tragic phrases in the English language. Live while you can. — Michael A. McLellan

The universe does not work in phrases; don't focus on the commas; just wait for the full stop. — Jude Idada

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

I didn't ask any questions. Everything I wanted to know was written in tortured phrases across the desolation of her face. — John Fante

No, I didn't forget Samoan - I understand it when you talk to me but, you know, to put phrases together I sound like I do in English. — Junior Seau

They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares. — Joseph Conrad

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

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

People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche. — E. V. Lucas

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. — Evelyn Waugh

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

A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself. — Storm Jameson

[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile. — Charles Dickens

In 5 minutes, 1 minute and many other phrases most of them are a lie..., but why do we say them? — Deyth Banger

Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the brightness. — Elizabeth Goudge

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

Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself. — Rajneesh

A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. — William Shakespeare

I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner. — Stephen King

Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned. — Nancy Duarte

In America, there is no racial segregation. I'm not sure I'm quite familiar with this phrase. — Trevor Noah

Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter ... — Nikki Giovanni

The metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature not naturally its own. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

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

I love to use these phrases - 'with the greatest respect', 'in all modest', 'I humbly submit' - which in fact always imply the complete opposite. — William Boyd

Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases. — Isaac Asimov

Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome. — Ezra Pound

The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret. — Fred Allen

I walk making up phrases; sit, contriving scenes; am in short in the thick of the greatest rapture known to me. — Virginia Woolf

Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains ... — Virginia Woolf

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

I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases ... — Jimmy Buffett

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

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

In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates. — Willis Regier

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

Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life. — Robert C. Solomon

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

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

Don't be ridiculous. Only one of the most condescending phrases in the English language ... and — Christine Pope

In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'. — Sam Ewing

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

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

Please phrase your answer in the form of a question. — Alex Trebek

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

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

Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit? — Erica Jong

Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life. — Maeve Binchy

Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants. — William Congreve

Second-century Christian thinker Athenagoras wrote, Our life does not consist in making up beautiful phrases but in performing beautiful deeds. — Shane Claiborne

In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

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

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