#phrase

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat. ↗

— Joe DiMaggio

#bat #before #crack #hears #long

Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it. ↗

— Paul Kane

#back #best #black #come #down

In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#block #implies #opposition #phrase #same

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

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#also #beautiful #been #being #book

Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers. ↗

— Jef I. Richards

#children #coined #congress #future #our

When people say 'love to hate', they actually mean 'love to be appalled by' - if they truly hated them, they'd never repeat a catch phrase. ↗

— Chris Morris

#appalled #catch #catch phrase #hate #hated

When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases. ↗

— John Otto

#bit #completing #drum #had #i

Nothing is ever certain. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#cruel #death #lies #phrases #sad

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#on-writing #paraphrased #inspirational