A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.
William Shakespeare
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The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
Thomas W. Higginson
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things -- all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
Nina Simone
Kept on talking and talking, you couldn't contain him, an avalanche of friendly phrases and jokes. I finally felt an almost physical consolation, warmth that I had forgotten for some time.
Giuliana Sgrena
We've all brushed up on some Russian phrases to make him feel welcome. Like we would in his country.
Stephen Corridan
In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words-liberty, equality, and fraternity-do just as much. Millions of people have died for those ideals.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
This is one of the scariest phrases to find. Sometimes it can be serious, other times, it's not.
Dan Wasserman
He would do things like travel on the buses around Ithaca and record phrases, in a little notebook, from young girls that he heard coming back from school.
Brian Boyd
She said some very good things. But her very soft phrases are encouraging our leaders to oppose new leadership.
Bulat Abilov
Wrong emphasis, wrong phrases. I was trying to make the lyrics more difficult, so they can work on a subconscious level.
Yegor Letov
Certain phrases stick in the throat, even if they offer nothing that is analytically improbable. 'A dashing Swiss officer' is one such. Another is 'the beautiful Law Courts.
John Russell
It would be his last (message), because from that day he would be able, with great effort, to pronounce only a few phrases.
Stanislaw Dziwisz
Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.
James Bryant Conant
It's a little overwhelming for her, ... but she's picking up phrases very easily.
David Brody
These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.
Claude M. Bristol
'Smart growth' does not have a fixed definition. Phrases like that mean whatever you want them to mean.
Gregg Easterbrook
It's not that PowerPoint brought the Columbia down, but the method of presentation broke up the argument into tiny fragments, and it's intensely hierarchical-no sentences, just little phrases.
Edward Tufte
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