#phr

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#also #beautiful #been #being #book

The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country. ↗

— George Stephenson

#came #constructed #country #humphrey #i

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government. ↗

— Joseph Story

#bad #bad government #executed #execution #feeble

I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book. ↗

— Joe Strummer

#arabic #began #book #british #cause

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. ↗

— Allen Tate

#art #england #forty #forty years #kind

I learned my phrasing from Frank. I loved him so much. ↗

— Eydie Gorme

#him #i #learned #loved #much

He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech. ↗

— John Colville

#fertilizes #gives #line #phrase #poetry

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#praying #schizophrenia #talk #talks #you

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. ↗

— Alan Price

#failure #fathers #orphan #phrase #thousand

Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers. ↗

— Jef I. Richards

#children #coined #congress #future #our