#phrase

There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records. ↗

— Afrika Bambaataa

#came #catch #catch phrase #everybody #funk

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 Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.' ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#called #death #grandly #greeks #happy

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#eternal #expressive #gifted #heart #himself

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#completely #doing #every #evoke #good

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it. ↗

— Bette Davis

#become #character #character actress #had #i

Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me. ↗

— Fred Durst

#affected #against #emotionally #feel #got