Quotes About Phrase

Each piece was a struggle between the editor--who insisted on the polished phrase, the line that would live forever--and the writer, an ordinary man with something ordinary to say, something sentimental and unremarkable, not quite good enough.

His designs were strictly honourable as the phrase is: that is to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

That moment was the first time I heard the phrase Project Hollywood. I didn't think much about it at the time. I figured it would end up like Project Bliss: another stillborn scheme consigned to the trashcan of mental masturbation. "I

There's no way to phrase this other than bluntly. Master Vos—the Council wants you to assassinate Count Dooku.

The last child is secure. The phrase to remove him from the safety circle is Curious George likes his bike.

Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us.

It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that." As if that gives them certain rights. It's simply a whine, just no more than a whine. "I find that offensive": it has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase.

A lot of people use the phrase 'underage violence,' which, to me, is meaningless.

Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?

The best timed joke or the best timed phrase comes at spontaneous moments and just relies on me as the host to be very quick, and that's what I do.

If mention of degrees is necessary to establish someone's credentials, the preferred form is to avoid an abbreviation and use instead a phrase such as: John Jones, who has a doctorate in psychology.

Who've you set up for me tonight? Set up, Myra repeated, wrinkling her nose. What an unromantic phrase. Sorry.How about-who are you planning to loose Cupid's arrow on? It's still unromantic when you're smirking.

Romans contains some seventy-four references to the Old Testament (mostly from Psalms and Isaiah). "It is written" occurs nineteen times in this book, more than half of all the times Paul uses the phrase.

He liked the phrase "mother's tit." It said so much, so simply. Momma's tit had a good deal more power to move these men than her apple pie.

It is curious how, at every crisis, some phrase which does not fit insists upon coming to the rescue--the penalty of living in an old civilisation with a notebook.

It is curious how, at every crisis, some phrase which does not fit insists upon coming to the rescue

Es curioso advertir que, en toda crisis, siempre aparece una frase incongruente que insiste en acudir en nuestro auxilio.

This stood for the Evolution of Sense, his greatest course (with an enrollment of twelve, none even remotely apostolic) which had opened and would close with the phrase destined to be overquoted one day: The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

So long, Charley."24 He had coined a phrase that jockeys would use for decades.

I can't even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don't even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world.

He had a particular pride in the phrase eminently practical, which was considered to have a special application to him.

Although the repetition of a word or phrase is a preparatory practice and is itself not meditation, choosing a word or phrase that honors your belief system can be the linchpin you need for your mediation practice, providing both motivation and philosophical coherency.

En la obra de un escritor con talento puedes hallar una frase, una sola, que te cambie la vida. En un escritor mediocre lo más que podrás encontrar es corrección gramatical.» En

En la obra de un escritor con talento puedes hallar una frase, una sola, que te cambie la vida. En un escritor mediocre lo más que podrás encontrar es corrección gramatical.»