#phrase

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head. ↗

— Brian Eno

#even #had #head #i #lot

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife. ↗

— Bruce Feirstein

#austen #fortune #jane #jane austen #man

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#apt #beautiful #better #brain #exact

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything. ↗

— Evan Dando

#decent #down #everything #experiences #find

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society. ↗

— Roy Jenkins

#become #been #better #civilised #dirty

Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#book #even #i #interpreter #itself

There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly. ↗

— Bill Forsyth

#dialogue #get #other #people #phrase

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#liberation #like #love #love story #phrase

The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically all the time - not realising that that's a form of prayer. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#automatically #bandied #common #days #form

That's why 'Gangnam Style' works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it's just awkward. But if someone like me uses it, it's funny. ↗

— PSY

#funny #handsome #just #like #me