Coined The Phrase Quotes

#1. Whoever coined the phrase 'Absence makes the heart grow fonder,' was an idiot.

Absence makes a bitch go crazy.

Toni Aleo

#2. I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

Ogden Nash

#3. I think I'm writing for an intelligent stranger - you know, in my mind I can't remember who coined that phrase first. I don't want to write anything that makes me cringe, first of all. I cringe a lot - mostly when I hear popular music.

Jason Isbell

#4. I would make the tea on a Daniel Day-Lewis set just to observe how he crafts roles like he did in 'My Left Foot.' That was the equivalent of seeing Haley's Comet for me. I just couldn't understand how that was possible.

David Oyelowo

#5. Text him and see what he's doing later.
Prob hanging out around the house.
Good. So he doesn't intend on going anywhere.
Why? Am I planning on drugging and kidnapping him?
We'll use that as a last resort.

Em Wolf

#6. I have an idea that the phrase "the weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm. - OGDEN NASH

Daniel G. Amen

#7. Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.

Richard Ford

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

Jef I. Richards

#9. I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged; too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.

Susan Orlean

#10. Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

Baz Luhrmann

#11. Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.

Jeannette Walls

#12. S. Lewis, coined the phrase "The

Charles W. Colson

#13. The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.

Frances Beinecke

#14. an expressive phrase coined by a Princeton mathematician of the last century: "Wormholes in space.

Arthur C. Clarke

#15. The phrase, "American Dream", a lifestyle approach that doesn't require God's power, just ours, was coined in 1931 by James T. Adams.

Gary Patton

#16. Whoever coined the phrase, killing two birds with one stone, not only hated birds but also thought we needed to conserve stones.

Dana Gould

#17. A surprising number, like options in the cereal aisle, liberal studies graduates working fast food, people who don't know Shakespeare coined the phrase break the ice.

Dennis Vickers

#18. If you've had a freakish education, at least use it, use it.

J.D. Salinger

#19. Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.

Samuel Smiles

#20. When I fuck you, Mr. Day, it will not be briefly. It will be long and hard and extremely thorough. I'm going to take pains with you.

K.J. Charles

#21. Whoever coined the phrase '"I can work well under pressure" should be put on trial for crimes against Humanity.

Adriano Bulla

#22. The phrase "low and slow" was coined to describe the relatively low temperatures used for smoking and the lengthy amount of time it takes to infuse and cook the food.

Ted Reader

#23. In short: Write the way people think. Nike knew what it was doing when it coined the slogan "Just do it." Grammatically, this phrase makes no sense. Your high-school English teacher would scold the copywriter for not being clear about the antecedent for "it.

Gary Dahl

#24. Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.

Robert Benton

#25. Why is it always such a surprise? thinks Toby. The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time we see it, it makes us pause, and hush.

Margaret Atwood

#26. Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of faith.

Josh McDowell

#27. Everything is connected" was probably a phrase first coined by an Old Soul.

Aletheia Luna

#28. To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such.

Laurence Gonzales

#29. It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#30. Whoever coined the phrase, I love you to death obviously never experienced the kind of love Tate and I share. If that were the case, the phrase would be I love you to life. Because that's exactly what Tate did. She loved me back to life.

Colleen Hoover

#31. The Turks moved in the next day and killed everyone in sight, including the staff of the nursing home.

Sebastian Faulks

#32. A lot of the websites built through the 1990s used Perl. The first webmaster of Sun Microsystems coined a wonderful phrase. He said Perl is the duck tape of the Internet - it's this language that people would write all these scripts that make things just work.

Tim O'Reilly

#33. My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.

Charles Kuralt

#34. Boredom is a lack of crazy. Its a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you're bored, blame yourself.

Katelyn S. Bolds

#35. Whoever had coined the phrase, 'the customer is always right,' had clearly never worked in retail or customer service. And if they had, well, then they'd need to be hauled out into the street and beaten to death with plastic spoons.

William D. Arand