#phrase

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #phrase




There's none so blind as those who will not listen.


Neil Gaiman


#paraphrased #stubbornness #americans

But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.


Melissa Bean


#accountability #catch #catch phrase #congress #congressional

If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.


Alexis Korner


#effect #every #every time #i #improvising

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.


Jiddu Krishnamurti


#conforms #consistent #groove #pattern #person

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.


Lauren Willig


#humor #mystery #paraphrased #humor

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.


Joan Bauer


#libraries #paraphrased #library

For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase.


Jhumoa Lahiri


#another #corresponded #fit #four #happened

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.


Jhumoa Lahiri


#doctor #had #head #heard #him

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.


Golda Meir


#cold war #detente #english #fancy #french

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.


Mason Cooley


#invented #person #phrase #poor