Phrased Quotes

#1. These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists,

Denis Hayes

#2. I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have.

Ana Gasteyer

#3. The historians criticized a tendency, as they phrased it, to too rapid generalization. Other people blamed my method; and those who complimented me were those who understood me least.

Andre Gide

#4. My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.

Frank Sinatra

#5. No words are too good for the cutting-room floor, no idea so fine that it cannot be phrased more succinctly.

Merilyn Simonds

#6. In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or, as it might be phrased in Latin form, no child's behind left.

Christopher Hitchens

#7. Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

Stephen Covey

#8. Vadderung grinned. I've never heard it phrased quite like that, but it's accurate enough. In any event, overcoming that inertia requires tremendous energy, will, and a measure of simple luck. If one wishes to alter the course of history, it's a far simpler matter to attempt to shape the future.

Jim Butcher

#9. Phrased it. The state sends him to prison, and the church gives you an apology in the

Danielle Steel

#10. The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to give it memory value.

Morris Hite

#11. God, or what have you, will not be found at the far end of a syllogism, no matter how brilliantly phrased or conceived.

Gore Vidal

#12. Where do vanished objects go?"
"Into nonbeing, which is to say, everything," replied Professor McGonagall.
"Nicely phrased," replied the eagle door knocker, and the door swung open.

J.K. Rowling

#13. That heightened dynamic can produce interesting, funny ideas that are phrased in ways that surprise even you, as the performer.

Ted Alexandro

#14. For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.

Brian Greene

#15. The vast majority of chatter surrounding parenthood is junk. All of these seemingly divisive decisions - like pain meds in labor, newborn sleep arrangements, and scheduling - are often phrased as moral imperatives from both sides. Screw that. Take care of your kid. Do what works.

J.J. Keith

#16. Our earliest efforts will be heard with joy by our Heavenly Father, however they are phrased.

Dallin H. Oaks

#17. The fact that a question can be phrased in a grammatically correct English sentence doesn't make it meaningful, or entitle it to our serious attention.

Richard Dawkins

#18. Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.

Isaac Asimov

#19. 'Breaking Bad' - I've heard that question phrased in many directions, and it always means the same thing. It's when someone can't ... when a decent person can't take it any more. They just kind of turn and go in the opposite direction.

RJ Mitte

#20. Our children are weird. Nicely phrased.

John Green

#21. The expeditions were often out of meat, and scant of clothes, but they always had the furniture and other requisites for the mass; they were always prepared, as one of the quaint chroniclers of the time phrased it, to 'explain hell to the savages.

Mark Twain

#22. Facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter,' as my friend the late Maya Deren once phrased the mystery.

Joseph Campbell

#23. Conversations and jokes together, mutual rendering of good services, the reading together of sweetly phrased books, the sharing of nonsense and mutual attentions.

Robertson Davies

#24. Well, if a horse refuses, you've phrased your question wrongly. It's the same with women. Don't ask them, 'Shall we go out to dinner?' Ask: 'What can I cook for you?' Can she say not to that? No, she can't.

Nina George

#25. In modern science laws of nature are usually phrased in mathematics. They can be either exact or approximate, but they must have been observed to hold without exception - if not universally, then at least under a stipulated set of conditions. For

Stephen Hawking

#26. As Bertie Wooster once phrased it, they experienced some difficulty in detecting the bluebird.

Christopher Hitchens

#27. A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.

Edwin Lutyens

#28. As writer Elisabeth Elliot phrased it, The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman.

Liz Curtis Higgs

#29. I think referendums are fantastic as long as the question is phrased in a way which is not meant to deliberately confuse or confound people.

Cate Blanchett

#30. After I give lectures-on almost any subject-I am often asked, "Do you believe in UFOs?" I'm always struck by how the question is phrased, the suggestion that this is a matter of belief and not evidence. I'm almost never asked, "How good is the evidence that UFOs are alien spaceships?"

Carl Sagan

#31. Steven, I know I phrased that as a question, but it was really a command. Yes, but mine is ... ummm ... private. Private, Steven? Yes, Miss Palma. PRIVATE Steven? Again with the capital letters?

Jordan Sonnenblick

#32. Sometimes when I am driving I get so angry at inconsiderate drivers that I want to scream at them. But then I remember how insignificant that is, and I thank God that I have a car and my health and gas. That was phrased wrong-normally you wouldn't say, thank God I have gas.

Ellen DeGeneres

#33. There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.

Carl Sagan

#34. The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#35. Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#36. Certain things acquired an evil complexion if phrased, but remained harmless in the mind.

R.K. Narayan

#37. His biggest rule was that you didn't involve anyone who wasn't already playing the game. Or, as he phrased it, if you have to kill innocent bystanders, then your planning is at fault and someone should best eliminate you.

Martha Wells

#38. I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

Oscar Wilde