Phrases Quotes - Page 4

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

Evan Dando

Song, Memories, Book

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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I know all the new phrases: 'cowabunga,' 'radical,' cat's pajamas,' 'duh,' and 'hey, homie don't play that.

Si Robertson

Cat, Play, Duh

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I have learned, as has many another better writer, to summon inspiration to my call as soon as I begin my day's stint, and not to hang around waiting for it. Inspiration is merely a pretty phrase for the zest to work. And it can be cultivated by anyone who has the patience to try. Inspiration that will not come at its possessor's summons is like a dog that cannot be trained to obey. The sooner both are gotten rid of, the better.

Albert Payson Terhune

Dog, Inspiration, Zest

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Never use the phrase: 'buy my book' - ever.

Heather Hart

Book, Marketing, Use

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There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.

George Eliot

Serious, Belief, Misery

George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.233

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Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...] "Natural law" is simply that law of which the person using the phrase approves[....]

Vilfredo Pareto

Law, Example, Libertarian

Vilfredo Pareto (1942). “Non-logical conduct”

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In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'

Karen Joy Fowler

Important, Humans, Human Beings

Karen Joy Fowler (2013). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: A Novel”, p.104, Penguin

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Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, ..., there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase “Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben” (“reverence for life”).

Albert Schweitzer

Life, Death, Sunset

"Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook".

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Da Free John's phrase kept running through my mind: "Practice the wound of love... practice the wound of love." Real love hurts; real love makes you totally vulnerable and open; real love will take you far beyond yourself; and therefore real love will devastate you. I kept thinking, if love does not shatter you, you do not know love.

Ken Wilber

Love, Running, Hurt

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

Henry Fielding

Marriage, Design, Way

'Tom Jones' (1749) bk. 11, ch. 4

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You know just because the majority thinks something is right, doesn't make it right. So, that is up to us, the people that see the wrong, that see the injustice, that stay educated, stay informed, stay involved. And there's an old phrase 'the squeaky wheel, gets the oil.' Right now, our wheels aren't very squeaky; the other side, they're the ones making all the racket...We just have to get up, stand up, speak out, and don't be silent.

Otep Shamaya

Thinking, Speaks Out, Oil

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Do you know what the costliest phrase in technology is? 'It will work because it would be cool if it did.'

Jean Louis

Technology, Would Be, Being Cool

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Stay far from timid only make moves when you're heart's in it, and live the phrase the sky's the limit.

The Notorious B.I.G.

Inspirational, Life, Moving

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To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.

Florenz Ziegfeld

Time, Mean, Differences

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This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.

John Drinkwater

Goal, Soul, Mind

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Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if only he'll not dismiss them as beneath his dignity. If I can work it up into a talk I might call it, 'Only a cough and a spit ' -the phrase so often used by actors to explain away a lack of opportunity.

Alec Guinness

Opportunity, Theatre, Actors

Alec Guinness (1997). “My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor”, Viking Press

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If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.

Alexis Korner

Use, Worried, Prepared

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The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases.

Paul Claudel

Magic, Everyday, Use

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Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their grammar we get feathers in our mouth. It's worth it. What pleasure to phrase an idea, even in child's words, slowly, and sail it across the gulf in another language to a different-speaking human being!

Richard Bach

Children, Ideas, Different

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One should not interpret the word “Revolution” in its literal sense. Various meanings and significances are attributed to this word, according to the interests of those who use or misuse it. For the established agencies of exploitation it conjures up a feeling of blood stained horror. To the revolutionaries it is a sacred phrase.

Bhagat Singh

Agency, Blood, Feelings

Bhagat Singh, Bhagat (2010). “WOF : Bhagat Singh”, p.51, Penguin Books India

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There is a value in repetition. When we repeat certain phrases and even actions, like fingering prayer beads, we create a quiet rhythm within our spirits. The beating of our heart is a repetition as is the rhythm of our breathing. All of life has its rhythms, and the repetition of familiar prayers can bring our interior spirits into harmony with the Divine Heartbeat and the breathing of the Divine Christ.

Stephen J. Binz

Prayer, Heart, Breathing

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I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous, and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. 'Nothing is more real than nothing.' They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark.

Samuel Beckett

Real, Dark, Pits

Samuel Beckett (1965). “Three Novels: Molloy. Malone Dies. The Unnamable. [Translated from the French].”

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Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.

Rebecca Mead

Book, Reading, Doe

Rebecca Mead (2014). “My Life in Middlemarch”, p.24, Broadway Books

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But in Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.

Melissa Bean

Responsibility, Accountability, Demand

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I have never been able to understand the compelling phrase, 'keeping up with the Joneses.' It does not matter very much whether I keep up with Tom Jones or anybody else; what is important is to keep up with myself by making my today a little better than my yesterday.

Eknath Easwaran

Yesterday, Important, Today

Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.192, Nilgiri Press

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