Periphrases Quotes

#1. Ah". Tzimisces smiled. "Let me guess. Flowery periphrases, back-to-back literary allusions and quotations from thousand-year-old authors. A marked reluctance to use one word when twelve can be jammed in if you sit on the lid.

K.J. Parker

#2. I'm not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much and in-the-future distance becomes an excuse for postponing action.

Tim Ferriss

#3. What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Victor Hugo

#4. It is a must to excel in our work.

Sunday Adelaja

#5. Cats are distant, discreet, impeccably clean and able to stay silent. What more could be needed to be good company?

Marie Leszczynska

#6. Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.

Constantin Stanislavski

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Anonymous

#8. I'm not drawn to actresses, but I have no rules about that. I just want to be around positive people. The toughest thing will be to find a girl who will be prepared to live in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the country. I don't think L.A.'s the place to find one.

Travis Fimmel

#9. Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.

Bertrand Russell

#10. If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.

Charles Francis Richter

#11. All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

Jock Sturges

#12. That old saying, how you always kill the one you love, well, look, it works both ways.

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. One of the advantages of something like Slack is that I tap on the app icon, and it's just the people at my company and just the people I work with. There's a strong boundary there which aids in comprehension. It's one less molecule of glucose in my brain to manage it all.

Stewart Butterfield

#14. I was not sorry when my brother died

Tsitsi Dangarembga

#15. I feel pressure as a fan. I don't really feel pressure from the fans, if that makes sense. I worked on other movies, like the X-Men movies, that have big fan followings. And if you start to get lost in those voices, you will be completely lost. I feel the pressure of the 6-year-old me.

Simon Kinberg

#16. What I hated then - and hate now - is the way that people say to girls like me who get pregnant young that it ruins your life. Having a child doesn't ruin your life - having a child is a blessing.

Rebecca Ferguson