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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.
I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.
Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.
The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
What a phrase that is: 'that explains everything!' I know better than to think anything 'explains everything' today.
I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.
In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.
The phrase surgical strike might be more acceptable if it were common practice to perform surgery with high explosives.
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.
It really gets my back up when people start using business phrases - 'sustainability,' 'the brand,' etc. - about rugby.
I am stronger than I thought I was. My favorite phrase has been 'This too shall pass.' I now understand it really well.
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
I search the phrase "Kellyanne Conway fails," and I'm just watching that Scottie [Nell Hughes] woman smirk all the time.
When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.
..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.
The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.
The phrase 'I can't' doesn't mean anything to me anymore, not because of my ego but because I know anything is possible.
Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.
A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation.
I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.
I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition.
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
It's very hard to imagine the phrase "consumer society" used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.
It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged.
What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.
In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'
A good solo is like a book. It will start out in a phrase, it will go on in paragraphs, and then it will have a great ending.
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
People are bringing SHOTGUNS to UFO sightings...brings a whole new meaning to that phrase 'You ain't from around here, ar'ya?'
My mom used to tell me, I can't use this phrase on the radio - but basically don't be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.
The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile." "You think my smile is beguiling?
The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
I think there are phrases that are exciting to a certain group within the Democratic Party but scare the crap out of other people.
Well, within a phrase. And with a series of phrases, you can certainly create the effect of diminuendo and crescendo, no question.
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.
One of the most overused phrases in political commentary is that someone is running a 'negative' campaign filled with 'attack' ads.
People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.
There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.
It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death.
Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.
Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.
Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that I work like a clerk.
No, I didn't forget Samoan - I understand it when you talk to me but, you know, to put phrases together I sound like I do in English.
Apparently Sodapop Curtis said "gnarly," and Chris Traeger said "literally." Every decade I have a favorite phrase I can't stop with.