English Phrase Quotes

#1. He shook his head,'Fuck, you say such fucking weird things.'
'Is that still your favourite word?' asked Isola interestedly, 'I like "verisimilitude". Tolkein said the most beautiful English phrase is "cellar door",

Allyse Near

#2. I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

Golda Meir

#3. Your silent smile speaks.
P. Hermans
June 21, 2017

Petra Hermans

#4. Al Qaeda has no place in Pakistan. It's a threat to Pakistan. And there should be a convergence of interests between the Pakistani state and the West on security issues, but also on wider economic and social issues.

David Miliband

#5. When I was starting out, William Goldman took me under his wing, and he's still the person I show pages to.

Aaron Sorkin

#6. My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'

James Caan

#7. It was not uncommon for his father to toss out the phrase "Jebem ti supu od klinova Isusovih!" which translated roughly as "Fuck the soup made from the nails of Jesus's crucifixion," and not think twice about it, even if in English he was unfailingly polite.

Reif Larsen

#8. I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century seafarers lately, and even the lowliest press-ganged deck-swabber turns a finer phrase than I do most days.

Geraldine Brooks

#9. I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.

Jim Morrison

#10. The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.

Kate Christensen

#11. 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

#12. Making It in Hollywood is the most disgusting phrase in the English language. It's more disturbing than prolific serial killer and rare terminal illness.

Caroline Kepnes

#13. Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

Erica Jong

#14. Rock star do not jump!" The launch was cutting sharply, its skipper calling out a phrase that bore no relationship to the English language as Amy knew it. "Rock star in a hurry!" Nellie replied, one foot on the boat's gunwale.

Peter Lerangis

#15. Something I miss terribly from the '60s - the most important phrase in the English language was, 'I got hung up.' Somebody says they got hung up, it's unassailable, you know? You don't go near that. Whoa! I know what that can be like.

Alan Arkin

#16. I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control.

John Cornyn

#17. The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.

Ernest Hemingway,

#18. Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It's awful. Goodnight.

Charles Bukowski

#19. What is a Lamb of God? People use this phrase.
I don't know.
I watch my sister, fingers straying absently about her mustache,
no help there.

Anne Carson

#20. It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world.

Claudio Reyna

#21. I venture to say that it's not enough to respect and tolerate religions other than our own.

Thomas Keating

#22. him to shoot anyone who even looked cross-eyed at him. "Web English is such a subtle tongue," he said. "That phrase is older than the Web," I said. "Just do it.

Dan Simmons

#23. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

George Orwell

#24. Lessons will repeat to you in various forms until you have learned them. When you have learned them, you can then go on to the next lesson.

Cherie Carter-Scott

#25. The expression Jake saw on all the faces, oldest to youngest, was the same: pure joy. Not just that, he thought, and remembered a phrase his English teacher had used about how some books make us feel: the ecstasy of perfect recognition.

Stephen King