#phrase

There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly. ↗

— Bill Forsyth

#dialogue #get #other #people #phrase

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. ↗

— Carrie P. Snow

#happiness #most #never #phrase #pursue

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#make #nowadays #phrase #three #turns

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#becomes #book #come #eyes #i

I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor.' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was in the theater for ten years before I ever had a TV audition. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#always #audition #before #ever #get

The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically all the time - not realising that that's a form of prayer. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#automatically #bandied #common #days #form

That's why 'Gangnam Style' works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it's just awkward. But if someone like me uses it, it's funny. ↗

— PSY

#funny #handsome #just #like #me