#phrase

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #phrase




The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'


Elizabeth Barrett Browning


#called #death #grandly #greeks #happy

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

Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written.


Stanley Crouch


#already #day #definitely #every #every day

People have a good time with all the catch phrases.


Verne Troyer


#good #good time #people #phrases #time

There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is pumped out so quickly so that you can read it while passing by, like billboards or those flashcards before movie shows.


Chris Ware


#billboards #everything #hate #i #laziness

When you're writing about people that are not very well off, you seem to see the kitchen sink. So it was a bit of a sort of cosy phrase that got used a bit too much.


Timothy West


#bit #got #kitchen #kitchen sink #much

There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.


Peter Straub


#been #clumsy #copy #could #dozens

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.


Al Gore


#challenge #emergency #faces #i #imagination

Some are born great, others achieve greatness.


William Shakespeare


#shakespeare #achievement

You can fool some people some times but you cant fool all the people all the time


Bob Marley


#fool