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"There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work."
"Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them. Both proclaimed, in Nietzsche's phrase, Follow not me, but you!"
"They had reached Lockhart's classroom...'You could've fried an egg on your face" said Ron. 'You'd better hope Creevey doesn't meet Ginny, or they'll be starting a Harry Potter fan club.' 'Shut up,' snapped Harry. The last thing he needed was for Lockhart to hear the phrase 'Harry Potter fan club."
"After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true."
"For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it."
"Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation."
"I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram."
"Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases of music, these conceptions which exist in relation to our dream, must be nothing either. We shall perish, but we have as hostages these divine captives who will follow and share our fate. And death in their company is somehow less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps even less probable."
"She had told him that she loved him. He had known that, but hearing it in the traditional phrase had affected him in new and blinding ways. Ways that made him believe that he could do anything. Anything she needed or wanted him to do. Because her loving him meant so much more than him loving her."
"Every time you use the phrase all my life it has a different meaning."
"Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent."
"Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative."
"They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free."
"It has been said that if the opening phrase of a classical minuet can be fitted to the words "Are you the O'Reilly who owns this hotel?" then it was written by Haydn; if it can't then it wasn't."
"Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else."
"I don't suggest that the observations are surprising or profound. Rather, they seem to me the merest truisms. I was not aware that [ Michel] Foucault had used the phrase "speaking truth to power." I had thought it was an old Quaker phrase."
"He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds."
"I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'"
"I do not know is a phrase which becomes us."
"The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence."
