Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

Charles Dickens

…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.

Ben Affleck

Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious.

Daniel Handler

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.

Aristophanes

A truce to idle phrases!

Eliezer Yudkowsky

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

Barbara Kingsolver

a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.

Ayelet Waldman

There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'

Brian Tracy

Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.

Chris Bosh

It's all about concentration and repetition. That's all it is.

Brian Eno

Repetition doesn't really exist

Anthony Bourdain

We learn as professionals by repetition, by getting it wrong, getting yelled at and doing it again.

Kenneth Koch

All poetry comes from repetition.

Gertrude Stein

There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.

Martha Graham

Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.

Ellen Glasgow

Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.

Max von Sydow

Filming is repetition and many takes

Rose Wilder Lane

Constant repetition dulls receptivity ..

Charles Manson

Getting up every day and going through this again and again is hard.

Chris Hadfield

As I have discovered again and again, things are never as bad (or as good) as they seem at the time.