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I think you remember certain phrases from bad reviews. You don't remember all the bad reviews.
Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.
Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.
Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.
I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.
The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.
Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.
Sometimes a single phrase of testimony can set events in motion that affect someone's life for eternity.
I don't like the phrase having it all. It implies we're being greedy, like "have a second piece of pie."
There are phrases that are totally cliche that we, as songwriters, owe it to ourselves to not use again.
I keep coming back to the phrase "Dance with the system" - not just march onwards no matter what happens.
why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you
Taste speaks through a turn of phrase, a curl of the lip, a shrug of the shoulder: it makes an atmosphere.
He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.
Do you know what the costliest phrase in technology is? 'It will work because it would be cool if it did.'
The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society
Eventually you'll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you've copped and begin to put your own mark on them
A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.
History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!
People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'
The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time.
In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'.
Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.
Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word.
Sometimes I feel people try to be too complex. Some of the greatest songs are so simple. The simplest phrases.
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
If you can’t reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there’s something wrong with your argument.
I don't analyze too much, because then I'll question, 'Why do I write down all of these random little phrases?'
And for those of you that dropped out of high school, remember the famous phrase: 'Do you want fries with that?'
Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.
Talk is cheap. If it wasn't, people might not toss around 'I love you' like a marked-down phrase in a sales bin.
His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
It's not often that I get to remember and use phrases like "on out my farm" or "powerful ugly" in modern scripts.
[Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.
Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.
The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.
Governments have a favorite phrase: lean and mean. But theyve been made very, very fat for corporate interests.
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.
Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you get.
Even if you look in the dictionary you know the meaning of the word or phrase, but there's still the feeling of it.
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
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.
I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.
The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.
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.