#phrase

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. ↗

— Golda Meir

#cold war #detente #english #fancy #french

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#invented #person #phrase #poor

I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar. ↗

— Alan Price

#chords #guitar #i #lot #more

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. ↗

— Allen Tate

#art #england #forty #forty years #kind

Age of the geek, baby! ↗

— Keith R.A. DeCandido

#catchphrase #geek #leverage #age

Michael was still an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, coated in yum. Only now the enigma was a little less mysterious; I was a few clues closer to solving the riddle - but damn, that man would always be coated in yum. ↗

— Lisa Shearin

#male-beauty #paraphrased #sex-appeal #beauty

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#on-writing #paraphrased #inspirational