#phrase

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#deeper #defined #does #foreground #important

I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control. ↗

— John Cornyn

#control #english #english language #i #i do

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#each #fixed #nonsense #particular #peculiarities

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#chambers #gas #gas chambers #germany #grandfathers

I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And it's not the only way to fill two hours, or to phrase things, or to order thoughts, or order ideas. ↗

— Jane Campion

#because #culture #expected #fill #film

If you start with a good idea, you can encapsulate it in a phrase and explain it. I like high-concept films. Everyone can get hold of it. I don't think there's any harm in that at all. ↗

— Jane Campion

#encapsulate #everyone #explain #films #get

It's better to have loved and lost than to be nagged about buying a damn anniversary gift every year. ↗

— Joey Green

#love #paraphrased #humor

They should." "Should be like a wood bee," she said. It was a private joke, a mocking appreciation of the slipperiness of even the simplest hope, a nonce catchphrase like so many others lifted from favorite movies or TV shows that served as a rote substitute for conversation and bound them like shut-in twins, each other's best and, most often, only audience. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#conversation #hope #movies #pop-culture #tv-shows

I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it. ↗

— Jack K. Cooke

#had #however #i #phrase #succeed

You can still have chemistry on screen without getting on with the person. But it just makes your job a lot easier if you don't have to gird your loins, if that's not quite the right phrase, every time you're going to do a scene with that person. ↗

— Hugh Dancy

#easier #every #every time #getting #going