Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erica Jong

Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

Samuel Alexander

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

John Wesley

Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.

Sean Paul

Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Whoever came up with that phrase I wanted his greasy head on a silver platt

Laurie R. King

Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

Max Lucado

One phrase summarizes the horror of hell. "God isn't there."

Maurice Saatchi

If you can’t reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there’s something wrong with your argument.

Maria Mitchell

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Ellen Hopkins

I still care for you, you know.. That phrase again. Everyone cares for me. They just don't know how to love me.

T. S. Eliot

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

Ronald Fisher

(Coining the phrase 'test of significance'): Critical tests of this kind may be called tests of significance, and when such tests are available we may discover whether a second sample is or is not significantly different from the first.

Steve Harvey

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.

Stephenie Meyer

She wasn't speaking to me - in the juvenile, petty sense of the phrase.

Thomas Bernhard

...He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases.

Harlan Howard

I usually start with a title or maybe a little rhyme or phrase.

Virginia Woolf

I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

Salman Rushdie

If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through a second language and end in a third. It's the very playful, very natural result of juggling languages. You are always reaching for the most appropriate phrase.

Rollo May

Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them. Both proclaimed, in Nietzsche's phrase, Follow not me, but you!

Tom Peters

Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.

Stephen Greenblatt

In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.

Stephen Fry

If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases and yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears.