The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.
It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?
Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself.
Every sentence, every phrase, every word has to fight for its life.
We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray; But dim or clear, we own in Him The life, the truth, the way.
Ric Flair is one of the most entertaining guys to sit down with and by entertaining I don't mean he has catchy phrases, but that he's been through so much and his experiences are so genuine I could listen to him talk all day.
It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death.
Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.
I am stronger than I thought I was. My favorite phrase has been 'This too shall pass. ' I now understand it really well.
If you start with a good idea, you can encapsulate it in a phrase and explain it. I like high-concept films. Everyone can get hold of it. I don't think there's any harm in that at all.
I will go anywhere if you say the phrase 'there might be cake. ' I would go to the Department of Motor Vehicles, register somebody else's boat in Spanish, a language I do not speak, without ID - for cake.
The only phrase I've ever disliked is, 'Why, we've always done it that way. ' I always tell young people, 'Go ahead and do it. You can always apologize later. '
We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan, but of bureaucrats.
Every time you use the phrase all my life it has a different meaning.
You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile. " "You think my smile is beguiling?
You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.
If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose. . . the fact that they were the people who created the phrase "to make money. " No other language or nation had ever used these words before. . . . Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created.
Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting".
If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.