Short Phrase Quotes

#1. Meet me at the pitcher pouring a thousand streams." Alice's phone was probably tapped. The strange, short phrase should confuse anyone who snooped on it. Anyone other than Alice.

Deva Long

#2. While technology efficiently delivers news stories to our desktops, laptops and mobile devices, magazines are all about context - how ideas and images are presented in relation to one another and within a larger point of view.

Stefano Tonchi

#3. The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#4. I always have had, and always shall have, a profound regard for Christianity, the religion of my fathers, and for its rights, its usages and observances.

Henry Clay

#5. Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase and find that it helps you, that is a valid affirmation.

Eric Maisel

#6. In short: Write the way people think. Nike knew what it was doing when it coined the slogan "Just do it." Grammatically, this phrase makes no sense. Your high-school English teacher would scold the copywriter for not being clear about the antecedent for "it.

Gary Dahl

#7. Freedom is from within.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#8. Just say "I'm sorry." It's not a tongue twister. It does not need repeating multiple times. The phrase is simple and short, easy to articulate. And the last time I checked, it sounded just as good - if not better - in a whisper. So just say it; say "I'm sorry.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. Embrace the magical gift of serenity in your daily life. Nothing beats patience, humility, honesty and tranquility.

Angelica Hopes

#10. Americans of all ages are earning less than they did two decades ago when adjusted for inflation. Yet they're paying more in taxes.

Simon Black

#11. Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.

Nicole Krauss

#12. Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#13. "On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.

Ezra Taft Benson

#14. I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.

Dalai Lama

#15. In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.

Stephen Greenblatt

#16. In short, this was a period in which the phrase 'you're never alone with a good book' started to sound less like a promise and more like a threat.

Andy Miller

#17. I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

Jeff Tweedy

#18. There is always another secret.

Brandon Sanderson

#19. Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same.

Tibullus

#20. The less explaining you do the less people speculate.

M. V. Heberden