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Quotes About Phrase

Every good war film, if you want to use that phrase - I don't think it's a good phrase, but if you want to use that phrase - every good film, a first-rate film about war, is an anti-war movie.
~ Michael Cimino
I am of that '60s generation, and for people of my age, that phrase 'change the world' has a real resonance.
~ Mark Kurlansky
The last thing I'd ever want to see is another manager being sacked. I certainly don't like the phrase 'sacking season.'
~ David Moyes
The way people do an impression of me is they use the phrase, 'Who are these people who do this... ?' Then they do some not-quite-good-enough observational humour, which is the most offensive thing.
~ Josh Widdicombe
I don't like the phrase 'face of the franchise.' I just want to be a part of it. I think we have a really good team. When we start winning games, it looks a lot better.
~ Jimmy Butler
Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rivers of fire. Even the rocks burn. An island rises from the sea. Dark magic in an errant phrase. The people bow to the lord of error.
~ Rand Miller
The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.
~ Raymond Chandler
I would say Nawaz is my lucky charm.
~ Amy Jackson
Americans have swapped the awkward phrase "same-sex marriage" for the term "marriage equality." The phrase is ordinarily employed to mean that same-sex couples will have the rights different-sexed couples do. But it could also mean that marriage is between equals. That's not what traditional marriage was.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Recently, a lot of Americans have swapped the awkward phrase "same-sex marriage" for the term "marriage equality." The phrase is ordinarily employed to mean that same-sex couples will have the rights different-sexed couples do. But it could also mean that marriage is between equals. That's not what traditional marriage was.
~ Rebecca Solnit
As Mark Twain cuttingly remarked, if you removed all occurrences of the phrase 'And it came to pass', the Book of Mormon would be reduced to a pamphlet.
~ Richard Dawkins
Which part of get the fuck out didn't you understand, hard man?" I got the fuck out.
~ Richard K. Morgan
It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death. The
~ Richard K. Morgan
Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.
~ John Donne
Prospective users hear the blockchain hype and assume the hypothetical plans are real products that exist now — though "the blockchain could" is a phrase that really means "the blockchain doesn't," because if it did, they'd say that.
~ David Gerard
I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
And at times I murmured the token phrase to the doctor, 'When can I go home?' knowing that home was the place where I least desired to be. There they would watch me for signs of abnormality, like ferrets around a rabbit burrow waiting for the rabbit to appear.
~ Janet Frame
Talking of 'letting go of a lot of stuff,' his father handed the phrase back to Seamus, held by the corner like someone else's used handkerchief....
~ Edward St. Aubyn
Why is playing football in Europe considered the pinnacle of our game, yet in other spheres of life, that same phrase - 'being in Europe' - is dismissed with suspicion?
~ Gordon Brown
Not worth beans" has meant "utterly valueless" since the thirteenth century, which shows that, historically, we haven't had a clue as to the value of beans.
~ Rebecca Rupp
Enigma! I call, adding a Here, kitty, kitty, kitty! because obviously it's the universal language for feline summoning. And maybe it is -- no sooner do I croon that magic phrase than I hear an answering meow.
~ Kelley Armstrong