Quotes for All
It’s hard to believe. Where does the times go?’ Betty sighs. ‘I’ve always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though. Gabrielle Zevin
An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which. G. E. M. Anscombe
On my honor – what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout’s Oath. Ezra Taft Benson
Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome. Ezra Pound
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. Ezra Furman
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. Evelyn Waugh
Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom. Evelyn Waugh
But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of the quality of the music, but only really hear a phrase now and again. So they have no notion at all of the mighty symphony which fills the universe, to … Read more
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
No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and … Read more