#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

There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.


Emmanuelle Beart


#different #different reasons #french #just #love

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

So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward.


Kerry Washington


#could #country #democracy #expanded #first

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

Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet.


Cathy Hopkins


#diet

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.


Oscar Wilde


#food #foodie #food

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.


Kurt Vonnegut


#paraphrased #humor