Quotes Tagged With :phrasing

In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us....

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us....

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

When you deserved it, even the mail could rape you.

It was nice to call my parents and proudly tell them, "My lady garden is going viral." In hindsight,....

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

The only known technique to an imitator is to steal and rephrase, then with a mischievous smile, he said,....

If your child can't resist throwing gravel in the park, in spite of your efforts to offer tempting alternatives,....

Music and literature, the two temporal arts, contrive their pattern of sounds in time; or, in other words,....

Write when drunk. Edit when sober. Market it with the persistence of a drug peddler.