Phrase Quotes

“All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.”
― Clive James, May Week Was in June

“We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we’re completely beside ourselves.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“If there is “better”, then there is a “best”. If there is “half”, then there is a “complete”. Far more than being a “better half”, you can be a “best complete”; like a word/phrase that beautifies and gives meaning to a sentence when it is added.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi

“To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Un Mot gribouillé sans réfléchir sur une Page
Peut stimuler un Œil
Quand enveloppé dans les plis de l'éternité
Son Auteur Ridé reposera

L'Infection se développe dans la phrase
Nous pouvons inhaler le Désespoir
Comme, venant du fond des Siècles,
La Malaria -”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“I didn't just come in on a load of turnips!”
― Phillip C. McGraw

“Holy batch of cookies, my shoulder hurts!”
― Ronie Kendig, Storm Rising

“She was beautiful beyond words, but not only that. Saranna was sharp as a knife. She'd have you guessing what you had said, then have you say it again in completely the opposite way, till you had made such a mess you didn't know what the discussion was about in the first place. Many found this unladylike, but only because they couldn't win against her. All except me. We would spar with words as men did with swords." ~ Velran”
― Steven Raaymakers, A Canticle for the Fallen

“Every lie begins with the phrase, 'Because I'm selfish.”
― Ken Poirot

“Every lie begins with the phrase, 'Because I'm selfish'.”
― Ken Poirot

“L'intonation d'une phrase révèle son sens véritable.
Il y a une manière de dire "oui" qui veut dire "non".”
― Jean Michel Rene Souche, Le polisseur de miroir: Considerations sur l'artiste

“I can’t think of a more misused phrase than ‘I can’t,’ except in this instance.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough