#phrase

There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite. ↗

— Peter Straub

#been #clumsy #copy #could #dozens

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. ↗

— Al Gore

#challenge #emergency #faces #i #imagination

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made. ↗

— James Hillman

#fathers #few #founding #founding fathers #happiness

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#added #contemplated #contemplation #course #enjoyment

My least favorite phrase in the English language is "I don't care." ↗

— James Caan

#english #english language #favorite #i #language

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#boat #great #hope #literal #man

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#career #catch #catch phrase #come #composing

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. ↗

— Carrie P. Snow

#happiness #most #never #phrase #pursue

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#make #nowadays #phrase #three #turns

I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it. ↗

— Gabriel Mann

#how #i #i do #like #phrase