Hackneyed Phrase Quotes

#1. I like the lad who, when his father thought To clip his morning nap by hackneyed phrase Of vagrant worm by early songster caught, Cried, Served him right! it's not at all surprising; The worm was punished, sir, for early rising!

John Godfrey Saxe

#2. Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.

Mason Cooley

#3. Dragons have been known to have staring contests with mountains. They usually win.

Ursula Vernon

#4. Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and having a better connection to the food around you and the people around you, only good can come of that. I love to be involved with things like that.

Amos Lee

#5. People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.

Catherine Deneuve

#6. It is the ultimate opportunity of a lifetime to try to understand the dreams and desires of a blooming flower.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Only worse thing than being cold, and too tired to defend yourself, is to be cold and alone. And I wouldn't ever wish that on nobody.

Steven J. Carroll

#8. There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of refinement and nobility of character.

Maria Jane McIntosh

#9. Thank Satan's scientists for inventing the birth control pill.

Eve Langlais

#10. We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#11. It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time, I didn't know I was doing it.

Peter Mayhew

#12. Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people into some kind of participation.

Eugene H. Peterson