Phrases Quotes

• Don't feel bad, Angela," Kami said. "You know guys, they only want one thing. Repartee. I can't count how many times men have admired my well-turned phrases.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Men
  • Guy
  • Feels

• What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Criticism
  • Wells
  • Century

• Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.

  

  Nella Larsen
  • Phrases

• [A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!

  

  William Mathews
  • Force
  • Pregnant
  • Quotations

• How quickly people changed, with their interests, their feelings. Well-made phrases replaced by well-made phrases, time is a flow of words coherent only in appearance, the one who piles up the most is the one who wins.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Changed
  • Interests
  • Wins

• 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
  • Buddhism
  • Phrases
  • Actuality

• 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
  • Beliefs
  • Phrases
  • Hireling

• The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? 'Your very own words,' indeed! And who are you?

  

  Brion Gysin
  • Words
  • Poets
  • Phrases

• 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
  • Behavior
  • Introduction
  • Psychoanalysis

• But in Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.

  

  Melissa Bean
  • Responsibility
  • Congress
  • Demand

• When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"

  

  Cate Marvin
  • Father
  • Growing
  • Hate

• For years, I've admired wrist tattoos, but I was always afraid that they would hurt - I'm kind of a weenie about pain. In fact, it's why I wear so many bracelets on my left wrist. The bracelets represented the words or phrases I'd want to get tattooed but didn't have the courage to.

  

  Rachel Hollis
  • Courage
  • Would
  • Admired

• 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
  • Magic
  • Everyday
  • Rhyme

• “It is easy to prime the pump and have the words gush forth in a torrent of pious phrases but the proof of what we really want – regardless of what we say we want – is evident in the way we live.”

  

  Charles Templeton
  • Live
  • Words
  • Phrases

• Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world

  

  Raymond Chandler
  • Enough
  • Being
  • Common

• It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death.

  

  Richard K. Morgan
  • Forgiving
  • Phrases
  • Weaponry

• Every sentence, every phrase, every word has to fight for its life.

  

  Crawford Kilian
  • Fighting
  • Sentences
  • Phrases

• There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Structure

• You can't really conduct your life by one or two phrases.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Phrases

• Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?" "Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Revenge
  • Heard
  • Bags

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