#phrase

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #phrase




Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.


Walter Koenig


#appealing #certainly #concept #engagement #like

If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.


Alexis Korner


#effect #every #every time #i #improvising

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.


Jiddu Krishnamurti


#conforms #consistent #groove #pattern #person

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.


H. G. Wells


#be true #begin #even #great #great number

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.


Lauren Willig


#humor #mystery #paraphrased #humor

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -Albert Einstein The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. Martin Luther King, Jr.


Einstein MLK


#phrases #profound #quotes-to-live-by #read #words-of-wisdom

For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase.


Jhumoa Lahiri


#another #corresponded #fit #four #happened

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.


Jhumoa Lahiri


#doctor #had #head #heard #him

For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase.


Jhumpa Lahiri


#another #corresponded #fit #four #happened

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.


Jhumpa Lahiri


#doctor #had #head #heard #him