185 Phrase Quotes for You to Enjoy

'Better do it than wish it done,' is a phrase ingrained in my mind. Nicola Walker

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The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase. Noam Chomsky

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I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it. Paddy Considine

I have employees that are, you know, other types of diversity, coming to me and saying 'Well, why aren't we focused on these other areas as well?' and I said yes, we should focus them, but, you know, the phrase we use internally is, 'If everything is important, then nothing is important.' Parker Harris

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We didn't have the phrase 'style icon' when I was young, but I have to say, I really copied Bob Dylan when I was younger: a little bit of Bob Dylan or a lot of Bob Dylan and the French symbolist poets - I liked how they dressed - and Catholic school boys. Patti Smith

School Style Young Say Bit Phrase Dressed Poets Liked French Catholic Catholic School Boy How Lot Dylan Little Little Bit Icon Younger Bob Bob Dylan Really Copied

When I'm writing, I generally toy with an idea until it manifests itself - meaning a phrase or a tune comes into my head and eventually begins to jell. When something hits me, I write it down immediately. I don't wait, or it's gone. Paul Anka

Writers begin changing the instant they append 'The End' to a novel. Readers begin changing the moment they encounter that same phrase. And even the novels themselves, through the strange transmutations of time and shifting tastes and mores, exhibit changes as we look backward upon them, acquiring retroactive meanings and tonalities. Paul Di Filippo

Time Strange Shifting Changes Changing Backward Phrase Through Writers Instant Look Readers Exhibit Encounter End Begin Same Tastes Them Acquiring Themselves Meanings Moment Even Novel Novels

Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it. Paul Kane

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Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is. Peter Agre

Natural Evolution Phrase Selection Natural Selection

'Globalization' has become the great tag phrase, but when we talk about it, it's nearly always in terms of the global marketplace or communications technology - either data or goods that are whizzing around. We forget that people are whizzing around more and more. On them, it takes a toll. Pico Iyer

Great Technology People Become Marketplace Phrase About Data More More And More Tag Takes Goods Global Talk Terms Globalization Around Always Forget Either Them Communications Toll Nearly

Videogames based on golf have often been viewed as, to mangle a phrase, a good walk through a virtual world spoiled. Connecting with your virtual golfers has often been as hard for gamers as understanding the sport itself. Rob Manuel

I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'A long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future. Romeo LeBlanc

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I always like it when writers posit writing as an act of empathy. It's such a grand turn of phrase, such a noble ideal; empathy is so worth aiming for in life that the same must hold true in art. But personally, I can't think too deeply about that when I'm working, or I'd never get anything down on the page. Rumaan Alam

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Silicon Valley isn't the only game in town. Tech is increasingly decentralized. Around the world, new tech centers with younger companies are able to embrace a different approach to talent: recruit locally, identify homegrown prospects and, in a phrase, bring them along for the ride. Ryan Holmes

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You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired. Sergey Brin

Happiness Buy You Money Old Car Mind Will Back Bit Phrase True New New Car Because Always Got Lease Hear Lot Expired Little Little Bit Really Figured

South Carolina is a 'right to work' state - a misnomer of a phrase, as the laws limits union representation of workers. It does does not guarantee workers a job or fair wages and conditions. Sharan Burrow

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The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures. What makes a country a world leader? Is it population, in which case India is on course to top the charts, overtaking China as the world's most populous country by 2034? Shashi Tharoor

Leadership World Leader Country Top India Phrase Archaic Case Charts Adventures Most Course Makes Ballads Very Curiously James Which China Notion Population World Leader

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man. Sidney Poitier

Good Man Father Good Man Bone Says Phrase Fingers He He Or She She Well Very Worked Farmer Dad Tomato

I don't have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and have to get their kids an education. To me, that's the backbone of America, to coin a phrase. Sloan Wilson

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I think the rule of thumb should be this: if you preface a sentence about a friend with the phrase, 'I love X, but... ' more than once in any conversation, you should stop hanging out with them. Sloane Crosley

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Unless we're talking about old-school, witchcraft-trial violence, can we please phase out the phrase 'girl crush?' While we're at it, if we can axe 'like, total girl crush' unless Total Girl Crush is the name of a fizzy soft drink, in which case I'll take two, thank you. Sloane Crosley

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When you say 'I want to be an inspiring leader,' the operative phrase is 'I want.' This is inherently me-centered and self serving whether or not you recognise it. What you are really saying is 'I want to get people to do what I would like them to.' Perhaps they don't want to do that. So you have to somehow get them there. Srikumar Rao

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