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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 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

When we hear phrases like 'New World Order,' we release the safety catches on our revolvers. — Pat Buchanan

When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish. — Jack Smith

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

If my phrases shock the reader, that only shows it is high time he or she was shocked. — H.G.Wells

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases. — James Bryant Conant

I think you remember certain phrases from bad reviews. You don't remember all the bad reviews. — John Updike

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

Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive ... — Lucille Kallen

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

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

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

Lao Tsu doesn't seem to hold to much stock for words or phrases or teachings. — Frederick Lenz

I realised that all this talk was of no value and at its best only led to clever phrases. — Hermann Hesse

I look upon fine phrases as a lover. - John Keats — Beatrice K. Otto

I usually start with a title or maybe a little rhyme or phrase. — Harlan Howard

Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first! — Anne McCaffrey

A truce to idle phrases! — Aristophanes

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

Stop scapegoating immigrants[Stop using] outrageous phrases like 'illegal aliens.' — Howard Dean

Let's be about it, people. — David Weber

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

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

Governments have a favorite phrase: "lean and mean." But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests. — Vandana Shiva

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, I told you so. — Lord Byron

Human experience is usually paradoxical, if that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. — George Eliot

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

The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything. — Ernest Hemingway,

The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property. — Charles Sumner

Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical. — W. Somerset Maugham

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I don't analyze too much, because then I'll question, 'Why do I write down all of these random little phrases?' — Sue Tompkins

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

Male philosophers coin phrases
'virtue is its own reward'
and female workers embody them. — Mary Jo Weaver

You are never listening to what someone is saying, you are only ever listening to what you are hearing — Julia Heywood

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

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

I'm going to say a phrase or terminology or vowel that I don't know how to attack . — Lake Bell

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

You can be amazing, you can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug — Sara Bareilles

It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility. — Bill Frisell

The writer knows more or less what he wants to say, but an accumulation of stale phrases chokes him like tea-leaves blocking a sink. — George Orwell

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

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

There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling. — George Eliot

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

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

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

There has never been a poet able to heal with words, nor accurately express with phrases, the pain of missing a lost loved one. — Steve Maraboli

Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril. — Woodrow Wilson

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

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

Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know. — John Donne

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

Words and phrases grew only slowly — Henri Cole

You can't really conduct your life by one or two phrases. — Steve Martin

Kind words dispel clouds of fear like the moonlight's smile on water. — Khaled Talib

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

Buy yourself some time. Interrupt the 'yes' cycle, using phrases like "I'll get back to you," then consider your options. — Auliq Ice

Case closed, game over, zip up your fly. — Stephen King

the pain that underlies all pain: the pain that we are all, as Rilke phrases it, "unutterably alone. — Julia Cameron

These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind. — Claude M. Bristol

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs. — Mose Allison

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

Zen phrase says The instant you speak about a thing you miss the mark. — Fritjof Capra

I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase. — Ezra Furman

I use not casual phrases but imagistic phrases that create a rhythm of natural presence. — Gerald Vizenor

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

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

It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size. — Aristophanes

An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which. — G. E. M. Anscombe

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more. — Jack White

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

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

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

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