(96 quotes found)
“The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron.”
George F. Will
“The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.”
Carrie P. Snow
“And it all boils down to one quotable phrase... "If you love something, give it away."”
Conor Oberst
“These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.”
Claude M. Bristol
“Phrases and their actual meanings: "My teacher has never liked me." Expect a phone call before lunch from the teacher informing you that your child has been launching hot dogs by compressing them inside a small Thermos and then removing the lid quickly.”
Erma Bombeck
“A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.”
Arthur C. Clarke
“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
“My grandfather had a very nice phrase about your grandfather,”
Winston Churchill
“What are we going to do about Billy? That was the phrase that haunted me those first ten years. I pretended not to care, but secretly I was petrified. Everyone and everything was passing me by. I had no real friends, no single person who shared an equal interest in all games. I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone.”
William Goldman
