184 Quotes About Phrases
- Author Jack Vance
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What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.
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- Author Steve Vai
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A good solo is like a book. It will start out in a phrase, it will go on in paragraphs, and then it will have a great ending.
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- Author Ayelet Waldman
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There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'
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- Author David Wong
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The phrase 'sodomized by a bratwurst poltergeist' suddenly flew through my mind.
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- Author George Will
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The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.
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- Author Jack White
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The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.
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- Author Oscar Wilde
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I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.
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- Author Philip Wylie
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So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said.
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- Author Virginia Woolf
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I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.
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