Quotes and Sayings About Phrases
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An odd phrase, "by heart," he would add, as though poems were stored in the bloodstream.
-- A. S. Byatt -
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
-- Agnes Repplier -
There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
-- Agnes Repplier -
To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, 'Don't cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.'
-- Ajahn Chah -
That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.
-- Alan Moore -
I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.
-- Alan Price -
I'm pretty good at inventing phrases - you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you'd sat on a pin, they seem so new and exciting even though they're about something hypnopaedically* obvious. But that doesn't seem enough. It's not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if only he'll not dismiss them as beneath his dignity. If I can work it up into a talk I might call it, 'Only a cough and a spit ' -the phrase so often used by actors to explain away a lack of opportunity.
-- Alec Guinness -
Please phrase your answer in the form of a question.
-- Alex Trebek -
A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
-- Alexander Smith -
If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.
-- Alexis Korner -
No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
-- Alfred de Vigny -
Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase.
-- Ali Smith -
It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.
-- Anton Seidl -
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
-- Aristophanes -
Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that of the blessed word 'evolution' in the late nineteenth.
-- Arthur Oncken Lovejoy -
After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.
-- Arthur Smith -
There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'
-- Ayelet Waldman -
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
-- Baz Luhrmann -
If the women's movement can be summed up in a single phrase, it is 'the right to choose'.
-- Beatrice Faust -
Feminism as a theoretical enterprise is approached differently by Black women depending on where we are. There are more reformist Black women who tend to use the phrase "Black feminism".
-- Bell Hooks -
Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious.
-- Ben Affleck -
Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.
-- Benjamin Hoff -
There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly.
-- Bill Forsyth -
If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means.
-- Bill Halter -
I saw a specialist who asked me 'Are you familiar with the phrase faecal impaction?'. I said I think I saw that one with Glenn Close and Michael Douglas.
-- Bob Monkhouse -
And for those of you that dropped out of high school, remember the famous phrase: 'Do you want fries with that?'
-- Bobby Heenan -
Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.
-- Brian Tracy
