Good Phrases And Sayings

#1. I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness. - Author: Henry David Thoreau

#2. I began by working in a study in an attic, but for many years, I've used a small room in a library. What matters to me isn't decor or comfort but only quiet. I need to hear the rhythms of phrases, the music of sentences. Any place that allows me to do that is good enough. - Author: Steven Millhauser

#3. Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along. - Author: Arthur C. Clarke

#4. He cut away the insignificant and incidental. Those bits were tossed
away from the juicy core pieces. He slid the excess tissue and tendons away and reorganized the good bits on his plate. Those pieces were translated into words and catchy phrases and assembled like a new life. - Author: Jeffry R. Halverson

#5. If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her. - Author: Karen Black

#6. I just go for what makes me feel good. Especially in 2011, it's so easy to sound like a dickhead when describing yourself because anything anyone says is a catch-word or a buzz-phrase. - Author: Mike Tucker

#7. Avoid theatrical flourishes - the phrases that sound so damned good that they stand up and beg to be recognized as "good writing," and therefore must be struck from the text. - Author: Donald Spoto

#8. Cutting through layers,this labor like cutting through the illusion of self to find there was no core, only the layers. - Author: David Vann

#9. There's nothing good about being certain about things. And I don't think there's any real talent in using language in a manipulative way, with phrases like "tax relief" or "Social Security reform." It's politically clever, but it's also completely disingenuous, and it's not something to aspire to. - Author: Jonathan Safran Foer

#10. The phrase, 'Emancipation of Women' is only an invention of the Jewish intellect and its content is stamped with the same spirit. In the really good periods of German life the German woman never needed to emancipate herself. - Author: Adolf Hitler

#11. For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good. - Author: John Florio

#12. But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life. - Author: Placido Domingo

#13. I had never been good with words. On the path from my heart to my brain to my mouth, phrases became twisted and hopelessly convoluted. The intent - what I meant to say - never quite made it out. - Author: Gabrielle Zevin

#14. I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation. The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. I have turned from the world, and I pay the penalty. - Author: Charles Dickens

#15. In England you have a good phrase. It is 'to bring the game into disrepute. - Author: Arsene Wenger

#16. Repetition for no reason is a sign of carelessness or pretentiousness, but there are plenty of good reasons to repeat words and phrases. - Author: Steven Millhauser

#17. I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married. - Author: Camila Alves

#18. Careful listening to current country and western and rock music with the help of an interpreter for coded phrases shows that young people are hearing a constant stream of messages about getting high, feeling good, going on trips, and using drugs of all kinds with all methods. - Author: Virgil Miller Newton

#19. If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot. - Author: Denis Diderot

#20. People have a good time with all the catch phrases. - Author: Verne Troyer

#21. You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases. - Author: Aldous Huxley

#22. You can enjoy the quality of the ad and not let them pressure you to buy what you don't really need. I have had fun taking back superlatives and just ordinary good words and phrases from ads and trying to restore some of their life to them. - Author: Corita Kent

#23. I can't write story-songs, like I couldn't write a Bob Dylan or Tom Waits song. I can only write whatever weird phrases come into my head, and hope that they're good. - Author: Jay Watson

#24. It is not enough for the phrases to be good., what you make with them ought to be good too. - Author: Aldous Huxley

#25. What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life. - Author: Edwin Louis Cole