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I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.


Evan Dando


#decent #down #everything #experiences #find

I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are referred to as 'do-gooders.' This is how a phrase that can be used to stop an argument dead becomes part of common usage.


Gunter Grass


#becomes #citizens #common #country #dead

He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.


Don Hewitt


#phrase #thread

If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.


Alexis Korner


#effect #every #every time #i #improvising

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.


Jiddu Krishnamurti


#conforms #consistent #groove #pattern #person

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.


H. G. Wells


#be true #begin #even #great #great number

A local phrase book, entitled Speak in Korean, has the following handy expressions. In the section 'On the Way to the Hotel': 'Let's Mutilate US Imperialism!' In the section 'Word Order': 'Yankees are wolves in human shape—Yankees / in human shape / wolves / are.' In the section 'Farewell Talk': 'The US Imperialists are the sworn enemy of the Korean people.' Not that the book is all like this—the section 'At the Hospital' has the term solsaga ('I have loose bowels'), and the section 'Our Foreign Friends Say' contains the Korean for 'President Kim Il Sung is the sun of mankind.' I wanted a spare copy of this phrase book to give to a friend, but found it was hard to come by. Perhaps this was a sign of a new rapprochement with the United States, or perhaps it was because, on page 46, in the section on the seasons, appear the words: haemada pungnyoni dumnida ('We have a bumper harvest every year').


Christopher Hitchens


#famine #imperialism #kim-il-sung #korean-language #language

Nothing matters when it comes to love L)


no idea :S


#love

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.


Charles Churchill


#daily #digest #fit #know #little

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.


Mason Cooley


#invented #person #phrase #poor






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