The dreaded phrase in design circles is 'show and tell.'
People have a good time with all the catch phrases.
The phrase "working mother" is redundant.
[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining to the harassed man that the phrase "too much Mozart" was, given any reasonable definition of those three w...
Recently, a lot of Americans have swapped the awkward phrase 'same-sex marriage' for the term 'marriage equality'. This phrase is ordinarily implied to mean that same-sex couples will have the rights different-sexed couples do. But it could also mean...
And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room to grow, so that these clever, complex statements form slowly and then bloom in my mind. Beethoven does the same thing with his cadence and...
Every text is unique and, at the same time, it is the translation of another text. No text is entirely original because language itself, in its essence, is already a translation: firstly, of the non-verbal world and secondly, since every sign and eve...
Life is so diversified that to any statement I could make about living organisms there are exceptions. Because of the many exceptions, I should qualify everything I say with hedging phrases such as 'generally,' 'usually,' and 'almost always' But I'm ...
bantered us, challenged us, electrified us . . . At times his eloquence held us silent as images and some witty turn, some humorous phrase brought roars of applause. At times we cheered almost every sentence, like delegates at a political convention,...
Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is.
Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.
I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'
The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.
Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.
The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.
The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.'
My introduction of Whitney was that if there's going to be one performer for the next generation who combined the beauty and lyric phrasing of a Lena Horne with those Gospel fiery roots of an Aretha Franklin, it would be Whitney Houston.
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase.
