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 David Wong
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    The phrase 'sodomized by a bratwurst poltergeist' suddenly flew through my mind.

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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 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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