#phr

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#form #schizophrenia #socially #writing

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#illness #mental #mental illness #national #paranoid

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#deeper #defined #does #foreground #important

I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control. ↗

— John Cornyn

#control #english #english language #i #i do

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#did #dissolution #economy #i #intention

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#eat #foods #mostly #much #paraphrase

In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#block #constitution #different #implies #kingdom

Power is the great aphrodisiac. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#aphrodisiac #great

Schizophrenia demons live in my head. ↗

— Wesley Willis

#head #live #schizophrenia

The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.' ↗

— William Safire

#american #american culture #compound #culture #device