#phrase

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

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

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#make #nowadays #phrase #three #turns

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

— Gabriel Mann

#how #i #i do #like #phrase

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#becomes #book #come #eyes #i

I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor.' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was in the theater for ten years before I ever had a TV audition. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#always #audition #before #ever #get

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong. ↗

— Frank Miller

#been #course #crimes #defined #does

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#liberation #like #love #love story #phrase