#phrase

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase. ↗

— Stendhal

#gave #had #heard #i #i think

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#nails #similes #well-worn-phrases #christmas

How do you know if a demon is lying? His lips are moving. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#insult #paraphrased #insult

What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell. ↗

— Reduced Shakespeare Company

#paraphrased #romeo-and-juliet #shakespeare #humor

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#paraphrased #stories #humor

So many things to see, people to do. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#paraphrased #humor

I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#paraphrased #self-expression #death

Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that. ↗

— John Abercrombie

#back #every #every time #gigs #hear

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit. ↗

— Jan Garbarek

#fit #key #make #phrase #right

There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that. ↗

— Jan Garbarek

#certain #i #involved #jazz #moved