Top 91 Paraphrase Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Paraphrase

#1. Still, to paraphrase what John Stuart Mill said about the stupidity of the Tories, while not all people who claim to be politically incorrect are assholes, it's exactly the sort of thing an asshole is apt to say. (183)

Geoffrey Nunberg

#2. But to paraphrase the ever-paraphraseable Freud, who said something to the effect that when you speak about the past you lie with every breath you take, I will say this: When you write about the past, you lie with each letter, with every grapheme, including the goddamn comma.

Rabih Alameddine

#3. To paraphrase a Latino saying (which is possibly ultimately from the Arabic traditiom), MI rasa is supposed raza." So Living in Spanglish is not a racial Istanbul text.

Ed Morales

#4. To paraphrase Walter Laqueur, a pioneer in the study of the Allies' response to the Holocaust, although many people thought that the Jews were no longer alive, they did not necessarily believe they were dead.18

Samantha Power

#5. On the downside, to paraphrase Thom Yorke talking about the music business, we're still having to deal with the stench of the last fart of the dying corpse of this regressive vision that America is a white, middle-aged, male, conservative country.

Edward Norton

#6. I am not one to compare long melodies as did Mozart. I can't get beyond short themes. But what I can do, is to utilize such a theme, paraphrase it and extract everything that is in it, and I don't think there's anybody today who can match me at that.

Stefan Zweig

#7. To paraphrase Stephen King, sometimes an accident can be an unhappy woman's best friend. Put

MaryJanice Davidson

#8. Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ.

Kenneth Rexroth

#9. God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,

George Herbert

#10. To paraphrase Antonio Gramsci, cynicism of intellect; promise of the present.

Bill Grigsby

#11. The authority of the Scriptures does not depend on the decision of the church or the individual to validate it. To paraphrase the Westminster Confession, we receive it as the word of God because of what it is, not because of what we make of it.

Michael S. Horton

#12. To paraphrase Lorne Michaels (my countryman), it's the kind of place where they award Miss Canada to the runner-up, because the prettiest already gets to be prettiest.

David Rakoff

#13. To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Susan Sontag

#14. To paraphrase the famous Walt saying, Cast Members are there to work so Guests can play.

Leslie Le Mon

#15. To paraphrase Paul from the New Testament, he has a great soliloquy about love, where he's basically saying, if I've figured out the secrets of the universe but I don't have love, figuring out the secrets of universe means nothing.

Moby

#16. To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago.

Roger Zelazny

#17. The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)

Giordano Bruno

#18. To paraphrase Forrest Gump, Ugly is, as Ugly does!

Lorene Stunson Hill

#19. The truth is, I hate not being the first person narrator all the way through! To paraphrase David Copperfield, I don't know whether I'm the hero or the victim of this tale. But either way, shouldn't I dominate it?

Anne Rice

#20. To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.

W. H. Auden

#21. To paraphrase Woody Allen in Annie Hall, love was too weak a word for what I felt for that tiny crying creature who had my eyes, my mouth, my hair. I lurved my daughter, my Ava. I looved her. I lurfed her.

Melissa Senate

#22. To paraphrase Shakespeare's Polonius, you sometimes have to get your hands a little dirty to set things straight.

Lynn Steward

#23. The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.
(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)

Heraclitus

#24. I will not die, it's the world that will end.
paraphrase of unknown philosopher

Ayn Rand

#25. The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night.

Loren Eiseley

#26. There is a wonderful ancient Sufi saying which I'm going to paraphrase slightly. It says, 'When the heart weeps for what it has lost,' in this case 'heart' means 'ego,' 'when the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit rejoices for what it has found.'

Eckhart Tolle

#27. To paraphrase an old philosophical question, if a tree falls on the Internet and no search engine indexes it, does it make any noise?

Marc Goodman

#28. If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.'

Terence McKenna

#29. To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.

Vanna Bonta

#30. To paraphrase Einstein, insanity is expecting employees to do one thing while rewarding them for doing something else.

Robert G. Thompson

#31. To paraphrase the disappeared Jimmy Hoffa, who certainly didn't go down in history for his foolish worries: "Eighty-five percent of what you worry about won't ever come to pass. And you can always deal with that other fifteen percent." Of course, look what happened to Jimmy Hoffa.

M.A. Harper

#32. To paraphrase the great humorist, Will Rogers . . . "We're all ignorant, but only on different subjects".

Wilson Casey

#33. There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.

Mary Steenburgen

#34. Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.

Mason Cooley

#35. In the Middle East today there are too many people consumed by political dreams and too few interested in practical plans. That is why, to paraphrase Winston Churchill's line about the Balkans, the region produces more history than it consumes.

Fareed Zakaria

#36. Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase.

Richard Howard

#37. In the preceding pages, to paraphrase the words of Auschwitz survivor, writer, and Nobel Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, we share Martin Small's personal journey not so that you will understand but so that you will know you can never understand.

Martin Small

#38. To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.

Mark Galli

#39. Look. Every partisan in every party has to learn one thing: Sometimes your people are wrong. To paraphrase an old retort, saying "My party, right or wrong" is like saying "My Kennedy, drunk or sober." Credibility is earned, and standing up and saying "Fie!" now and then reinforces your truthfulness.

James Lileks

#40. An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.

Mark Van Doren

#41. To paraphrase Lucretius, there's nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious deadly disease peril combined with his or her assumptions of financial adversity to discern what kind of man or woman they really are.

T.K. Naliaka

#42. To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message.

Chester Elijah Branch

#43. dreamers--which the English call splash; Arabian poets gasgachau; and which we Frenchmen, who would be poets, can only translate by a paraphrase--the noise of water falling into water.

Alexandre Dumas

#44. Whatever emotional state you're in while you're parenting conveys more to your child than the content of what you're doing with them, no matter how perfect your intervention looks "on paper." In other words, to paraphrase Marshall McLuhan, "your emotional state is the message.

Michael Y. Simon

#45. To paraphrase Nietzsche:
'That which doesn't kill us, sometimes makes us wish it had.

Oran Kangas

#46. To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?

Billy Graham

#47. More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's bed. It began like this: 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ... '

Neil Peart

#48. Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper."

Greg Ray

#49. Heaven help me! I used to be fairly good at thinking. I could paraphrase any page in Aquinas once.

G.K. Chesterton

#50. I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here ... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness ... give me truth.

Jon Krakauer

#51. You really care for them, don't you? I wouldn't have expected it."
"Well, to paraphrase a famous fictional ogre, dragons are like onions - we have layers.

Julie Kagawa

#52. Before, prior to. There is no difference between these two except length and a certain affectedness on the part of 'prior to.' To paraphrase Bernstein, if you would use 'posterior to' instead of 'after,' then by all means use 'prior to' instead of 'before.

Bill Bryson

#53. Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself.'

Stephen Fry

#54. To paraphrase the great Will Rogers, El Rusho never met a pharmacist he did not like.

Bill Maher

#55. PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.

Albert Einstein

#56. The right wing conservatives think it's a decision that you can be cured with some treatment and religion.//Manmade rewiring of a predisposition//Oh no here we go, America the brave still fears what we don't know//But we paraphrase a book written 3500 years ago, I don't know ...

Macklemore

#57. The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion of Jesus: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's."
Bokonon's paraphrase was this:
"Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.

Kurt Vonnegut

#58. To paraphrase Titus 3:3, we live as slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in chaos and envy, hassled by others and hassling one another. We are all very busy, but not with what matters

Kevin DeYoung

#59. I'll tell you from my heart, looking at their party further and further to the left, to paraphrase the director of the FBI: I think it would be extremely careless to elect Hillary Clinton.

Mike Pence

#60. I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.

Kurt Vonnegut

#61. It's perfectly okay to paraphrase Nietzche: if you keep your focus, eventually your focus will keep you. Sometimes without parole.

Stephen King

#62. To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry.

John Ciardi

#63. To paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow ... we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains, it turns out, are not prisoners of the world we live in; we can fly free! We can, any time we like, create the impossible.

Robert Krulwich

#64. That when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

Arthur Schopenhauer

#65. To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

John D. Voelker

#66. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the other forms.

Ha-Joon Chang

#67. There was room for them. A great deal of Italy, back then, was forest. Where man goes, trees die; or, to paraphrase Tacitus, we make a desert and call it progress.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#68. Though they were not familiar with the expression,to paraphrase the saying, when any country in the Sahel sneezes, the rest of the region catches pneumonia, the men there would have clicked their tongues and ruefully nodded their heads that 'woolayi' this was the truth.

T.K. Naliaka

#69. I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative of commercial success.

Steven Weber

#70. To paraphrase Voltaire: if they can make you believe in their absurdities, they can make you commit their atrocities.

Voltaire

#71. The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.

Vladimir Nabokov

#72. The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

A. J. Jacobs

#73. Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

Walter Koenig

#74. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

Ronald Reagan

#75. I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases.

Wolf Kahn

#76. I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little.
[Exemplifying humility, upon accepting the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.]

Luis Federico Leloir

#77. I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.

Mark Twain

#78. If you read one book you are a clone. If you read two books you are confused. If you read ten books you have your own voice. And if you read one hundred books you are wise. (paraphrase)

Timothy Keller

#79. God loves all his children, somehow we've forgotten, but we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago.

Macklemore

#80. Over many years bin Laden cited dozens of concocted reasons about why he attacked the United States; the only valid one was that he attacked America because he thought - to paraphrase Margaret Atwood - with good reason, he could get away with it.

Victor Davis Hanson

#81. To paraphrase Montaigne - even when you're sitting on the highest throne in the world, you're still sitting on your arse.

M.J. Carter

#82. The law is too important to be left to the lawyers, to paraphrase Georges Clemenceau about war and generals. We laymen know too little about our Constitution and think too superficially about its influence on the qualities of American life. Civic duty requires more.

David K. Shipler

#83. [On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.

Marianne Moore

#84. To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

Bruce Feirstein