Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
Al Gore

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
Michael Pollan

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.
Mason Cooley

Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.
Paul Kane

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
Jeanne Moreau

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.
Matthew Simpson

The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now.
Rita Dove

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.
Robert Cormier

The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'
Harvey Ball

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov

The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be "What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?"
Glenn Beck

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
Alan Price

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.
Roy Jenkins

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.
Joe DiMaggio

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
Carrie P. Snow

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.
Marianne Faithfull

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
Benjamin Disraeli