#phrase

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. ↗

— George Orwell

#control #describing #england #family #members

That's why 'Gangnam Style' works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it's just awkward. But if someone like me uses it, it's funny. ↗

— PSY

#funny #handsome #just #like #me

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#comic writing #finding #funny #funny way #i

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

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

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

To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity. ↗

— James Schuyler

#change #disparate #elements #entity #form

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#each #fixed #nonsense #particular #peculiarities

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#chambers #gas #gas chambers #germany #grandfathers

I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.' ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#bush #country #expectations #george #george bush