#phrase

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#failure

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#paraphrased #light

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. ↗

— Guy Debord

#embraces #erases #expressions #false #his

Some are born great, others achieve greatness. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare #achievement

Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint. ↗

— Banksy

#paraphrased #painting

That's Hot! ↗

— Paris Hilton

#celebutard #paris

And then what?" "I'll burn that bridge when I cross it. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#paraphrased #ilona-andrews

I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#always #am #bad #defective #english

To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#actually #apt #dancer #dancing #difference

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography. ↗

— John Updike

#few #gagged #his #letters #line