Hate Phrases Sayings

#1. I hate phrases like that. "Jesus vocab," El would call them. Things you learn in church that are hammered into you until they're so normal that you expect everyone else who doesn't go to church to know what you mean.

Julie Murphy

#2. If anyone ever tells me something doesn't go together, it makes me want to try it.

Christian Scott

#3. Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.

Nguyen Quyen

#4. When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"

Cate Marvin

#5. Travel causes some affliction of the eye, and after a while no place it rests looks like home.

Sean Russell

#6. The lively is always more contemplative than what is dead and sad.

Robert Walser

#7. People are starting to acknowledge the direction the media is going. This is a good sign that we'll continue to deliver satire and news and opinion in new and different ways. Why be limited by the medium? I hope that there are more cartoonists and people who are willing to try something new.

Mark Fiore

#8. I don't understand how it's cheaper to buy a whole steak at the Price Club than spinach. How did that happen?

Jose Andres

#9. I hate it when people use phrases like 'no offense' right after they say the crappiest things to you.

Stephanie Tromly

#10. Grass is food for elephants, but a cushion for lions.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. For a few seconds I stood there in a strange, dim place. Where the things I could see didn't exist. Where the invisible did.

Haruki Murakami

#12. This forced league doth force a further strife.

William Shakespeare

#13. We are wearing Karma everyday..sewed by our past nor yesterday

Jaycynth

#14. The universe does not work in phrases; don't focus on the commas; just wait for the full stop.

Jude Idada

#15. the only choice is that between direct or indirect relations of domination and exploitation, with any alternative dismissed as utopian.

Slavoj Zizek

#16. Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

Phyllis Bottome

#17. Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women.

Helen Mirren

#18. I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#19. I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won't change that much.

Suzanne Vega

#20. The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#21. There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.

Alexander Graham Bell