#phrase

But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#accountability #catch #catch phrase #congress #congressional

The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be "What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?" ↗

— Glenn Beck

#hell #i #mean #missiles #most

I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar. ↗

— Alan Price

#chords #guitar #i #lot #more

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#divine #grasp #image #knowledge #listen

Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what? ↗

— David Sanborn

#guess #i #jazz #little #opposed

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

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death! ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#education #free-speech #paraphrased #death

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single girl of high standing at Longbourn Academy must be in want of a prom date. ↗

— Elizabeth Eulberg

#humor #paraphrased #parody #dating

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#paraphrased #humor

Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#paraphrased #humor