#phrase

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#be true #begin #even #great #great number

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away. ↗

— Lauren Willig

#humor #mystery #paraphrased #humor

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#invented #person #phrase #poor

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

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government. ↗

— Joseph Story

#bad #bad government #executed #execution #feeble

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. ↗

— Alan Price

#failure #fathers #orphan #phrase #thousand

Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers. ↗

— Jef I. Richards

#children #coined #congress #future #our

When people say 'love to hate', they actually mean 'love to be appalled by' - if they truly hated them, they'd never repeat a catch phrase. ↗

— Chris Morris

#appalled #catch #catch phrase #hate #hated

When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases. ↗

— John Otto

#bit #completing #drum #had #i

Age of the geek, baby! ↗

— Keith R.A. DeCandido

#catchphrase #geek #leverage #age