Phrases Quotes - Page 22

• Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.)

  Mel Bochner

  Photography, Ideas, Titles

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• Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the minds even of their inventors, until aptly selected words or phrases have as it were nailed them down and held them fast.

  John Stuart Mill

  Mind, Original Thought, Down And

  John Stuart Mill (1858). “A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation”, p.426

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• Simplicity is all. Simple logic, simple arguments, simple visual images. If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there's something wrong with your argument. There's nothing long-winded about 'Liberté, égalité, fraternité'.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Simple, Long, Simplicity

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• Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information.

  Isabel Allende

  Ideas, Information, Blogging

  Interview with Priya George, bigthink.com. May 3, 2010.

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• The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history, the medieval equivalent of the Nigerian Internet scam but far more successful.

  Richard Dawkins

  Rip, Successful, Catholic

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• It is immoral to brand children with religion. 'This is a Catholic child.' 'That is a Muslim child.' I want everyone to flinch when they hear such a phrase, just as they would if they heard, 'That is a Marxist child.'

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Catholic, Want

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• They say money doesn't buy happiness. That phrase should end with 'just kidding'.

  Daniel Tosh

  Ends, Should, Money Doesn't Buy Happiness

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• Choose a single, sacred word or phrase that captures something of the flavor of your intimate relationship with God. A word such as Jesus, Abba, Peace, God or a phrase such as "Abba, I belong to you." . . . Without moving your lips, repeat the sacred word inwardly, slowly, and often.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Moving, Intimate Relationships

  Brennan Manning (2011). “The Signature of Jesus”, p.204, Multnomah

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• I'm inspired to write songs in many different ways - it can come from a melody, a word or phrase or something I have seen on my travels around the world. It's one of the great bonuses of my job in that I get to meet so many people and experience different cultures and it would be hard not to be inspired.

  Chris de Burgh

  Song, Jobs, Writing

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• I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key.

  Shane McCrae

  Lying, Keys

  Source: therumpus.net

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• "Art Imitates life," of course, is that phrase by Oscar Wilde. I called that song "Art Imitates Life" because Oh No was in the studio and he actually came up with that hook. When I was trying to figure out a name for the record, it just kind of made sense.

  Talib Kweli

  Song, Art, Names

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• I think of the universe as the body of God, and the creative capability we see and can exhibit as the mind of God. I will use this phrase to describe our system, that it's a creative, intelligent, self-organizing, learning trial-and-error, interactive, non-locally interconnected evolutionary system.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Intelligent, Thinking, Errors

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Use "breath prayers" throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase that can be repeated to Jesus in one breath: "You are with me."

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

  "The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly often - completely surprising combinations that make a higher kind of sense, that come to you out of nowhere. But rarely for extended periods, for paragraphs and pages - I think poets must have more access to this state than novelists do.

  Don DeLillo

  Loss, Thinking, Novelists

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• Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.

  Andre Gide

  Angel, Play, Joy

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• Well, within a phrase. And with a series of phrases, you can certainly create the effect of diminuendo and crescendo, no question.

  Mahan Esfahani

  Wells, Crescendo, Effects

  "How To Annoy Your Dad: Play The Harpsichord". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. June 12, 2015.

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• You know, the primary process itself is very confusing. But in the end, I guess I believe what Winston Churchill said, which is that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others. And that phrase of his, which I always have previously thought to be kind of acute, more recently I've thought of it in this way, to say well, you know what, he's also saying it's the worst form of government - except for all of the others.

  Geoffrey Cowan

  Believe, Government, Confusing

  "The American Political Invention That 'Let The People Rule'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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• When I'm on the operating table, I'm happy for the surgeon to treat me as a machine, but the moment I return to consciousness I have other needs and aspirations that should be recognized. We're not here only to survive or extend our individual or species life but to do something seemingly more difficult, for which I've used words and phrases like 'love' and the 'Kingdom of God'.

  George Pattison

  Like Love, Needs, Machines

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• I guess that all figures into my approach because once I start hearing the imagination land stuff (that's my new phrase now I guess) I tend to tune out or start laughing at it like, "Haha, you guys really believe there is a heaven."

  Brad Warner

  Believe, Land, Laughing

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• There's a beautiful forgiveness practice I love which is quite simple. It's called "Ho'oponopono" (pronounced: ho-o-pono-pono) and it's a lot easier to do than it is to say. It's a Kahuna Hawaiian technique, which involves repeating four phrases internally toward yourself or the person whom you're having a hard time forgiving.

  Marci Shimoff

  Beautiful, Hard Times, Simple

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• If you're having a hard time being compassionate to or forgiving of yourself or others, you repeat these four phrases directed to yourself or the other person: "I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you." And just by saying and feeling those phrases, you will find your heart starts to melt.

  Marci Shimoff

  Sorry, Love You, Heart

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The Naturalization Act of 1790, three years after the Constitution, said the children of citizens shall be considered natural born citizens. That's in 1790. Five years later, in 1795, they amended the Naturalization Act of 1795 and said the children of citizens, wherever born, are citizens is excluded the phrase "natural- born citizens" when they amended the act!

  Donald Trump

  Children, Years, Three

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• You know that this vignette and that vignette belong side by side, you know that a certain turn of phrase you've been saving will probably work best within a given section of the narrative. As in a jazz performance, writing lives or dies by what's produced in that moment. But that moment is attended by long preparation.

  Teju Cole

  Writing, Long, Preparation

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I don't analyze too much, because then I'll question, 'Why do I write down all of these random little phrases?'

  Sue Tompkins

  Writing, Littles, Too Much

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The phrases and language used everyday in an organization can in fact affect the way your team makes decisions and conducts themselves.

  Kevin Allen

  Team, Organization, Decision

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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