Phrase Quotes
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“I am reminded again that the greatest phrase ever written is words, words, words.”
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There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind.
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O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound, "Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings.
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The phrase 'contrary to all expectations' rings through the story of the progress of human knowledge. It was 'contrary to all expectations' that the Earth was found to revolve around the sun, and not the other way round, and that a mould growing in one of Dr. Alexander Fleming's dishes was found to be capable of destroying bacteria. When in 1989 the spacecraft Voyager 2 got close enough to the planet Naptune to take detailed pictures of the surface, they were 'contrary to all expectations'.
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It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.
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I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.
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It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?
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Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you get.
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One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.
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If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.
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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.
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The one thing that makes me laugh about the phrase 'the worst week of my life' is that nobody actually uses that phrase when something really bad happens.
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In order to be deep, we sometimes have to cut through and cut apart. That is to be seen in the common phrase, 'Cut it out!' The reason is that this thing is seen as superfluous and therefore it should be excised, as a growth, unnecessary, should be excised.
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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.
