Periphrase Quotes

#1. It was not, she said, confessing to her husband her sleeplessness, that she was afraid. She was only "keepin' them company, an' haudin' the yett open," she said. The latter phrase was her picture-periphrase for praying. She never said she prayed; she held the gate open.

George MacDonald

#2. I lick my fingers because I don't like when my hands get slick. Licking my fingers helps me keep a good grip on the ball.

Steve Nash

#3. All knowledge, we find, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs, and if these are rejected, nothing is left.

Bertrand Russell

#4. Before my acting took off, I drove a truck for an inventory company throughout the northeast, but my favorite non-acting job was working in the box office at the Public Theater.

Dorian Missick

#5. Freedom of religion has been replaced by freedom from religion.

Ralph E. Reed Jr.

#6. The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it.

Cara Black

#7. I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.

Patrick DeWitt

#8. If a person who can [give a blow] forbears, there is merit in that.

Swami Vivekananda

#9. I grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts, and it goes without saying that there weren't many Nigerian families in that town, and a lot of people couldn't say Uzoamaka.

Uzo Aduba

#10. No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.

Scott Westerfeld

#11. While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.

Sharon Salzberg