#phrase

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them. ↗

— Dick Francis

#paraphrased #weirdness #humor

You remember all those phrases about how "these people" - Asians - don't value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#any #around #asians #certainly #children

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

— Oscar Wilde

#food #foodie #food

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there ↗

— George Harrison

#paraphrase-of-lewis-carroll #life

Familiarity breeds complacency. ↗

— Rick Warren

#life

But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well. ↗

— Nathaniel Smith

#extremely #grass #grows #horse #man

Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#men

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#paraphrased #poetry #dreams

Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#paraphrased #influence

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. ↗

— Guy Debord

#embraces #erases #expressions #false #his