#phr

Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#book #even #i #interpreter #itself

I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#i #mix #much #schizophrenic #slob

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#career #catch #catch phrase #come #composing

There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly. ↗

— Bill Forsyth

#dialogue #get #other #people #phrase

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. ↗

— Carrie P. Snow

#happiness #most #never #phrase #pursue

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#am #blue #i #red #roses

Schizophrenia beats dining alone. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#beats #dining #schizophrenia

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#make #nowadays #phrase #three #turns

I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#acted #actor #because #best #bogart

I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it. ↗

— Gabriel Mann

#how #i #i do #like #phrase