#phr

Schizophrenia beats dining alone. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#beats #dining #schizophrenia

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#make #nowadays #phrase #three #turns

I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#acted #actor #because #best #bogart

I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it. ↗

— Gabriel Mann

#how #i #i do #like #phrase

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#carrier #cash #desire #eye #female

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#becomes #book #come #eyes #i

I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor.' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was in the theater for ten years before I ever had a TV audition. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#always #audition #before #ever #get

Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#because #big #big city #city #crazy

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#literacy #may #necessary #schizophrenia

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong. ↗

— Frank Miller

#been #course #crimes #defined #does