Phrases Quotes - Page 24

• Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me.

  Sam Neill

  Magic Realism, Literature, Bells

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• This particular one was very, very heartwarming and is the relationship of an older man and a young boy that are essentially on the run. And so yeah, as I say, Barry Crump wrote a lot of books and this one got into the hands of Taika Watiti who then writing the screenplay decided to really vamp up if that's the word, or ramp up and modernize certain phrases - getting in the humor. So he added a lot of a real comedy perspective onto it which is what I think the story needed anyway, especially for it to turn into a film. And it worked.

  Rhys Darby

  Running, Real, Book

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Someone once said that "The Waste Land" was a scum of poetry floating on a sea of footnotes. That resonated with me, because that's kind of what I was doing lyrically for a while. I was being very referential in a way. I would drop in these little phrases or ideas that were sort of portholes into a whole bigger realm of thought or whatever, that would work within the song, but that you could also poke through into a bigger discussion.

  Ted Leo

  Song, Land, Ideas

  "Ted Leo and Ben Arthur Discuss Carly Simon, Joyce Carl Oates, and the Touring Grind". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. June 26, 2016.

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• [Is the Conservative Party still the Nasty Party?] I said it was perceived as the Nasty Party. And is it? I don't think that it's a phrase that people today would apply to the Party. I think that the perception of the Party has changed.

  Theresa May

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: conservativehome.blogs.com

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• Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other words in a phrase or sentence that can create magic. Perhaps literally.

  Tom Robbins

  Magic, Radiance, Way

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• If I can invent a phrase then this Democrat [Bernie] Sanders takes her [Hillary Clinton] off the hook on the emails. Could there still be an FBI indictment? Probably not.

  Joe Biden

  Email, Hook, Clinton

  "Chris Wallace Interviews Joe Biden: A Retrospective". spectator.org. October 22, 2015.

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• The Congress is not willing to think about the long term. They act like activist shareholders, to use that phrase again. They're not thinking about what can we do that will make us richer, safer, and stronger next year, and the year after, and five and 10 years out.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Years, Long

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• [William Butler] Yeats has the phrase Hodos Chameliontos, chameleon-like, in that you don't know where the beginning or the middle or the end is, so it's an unrelieved hallucination, because you don't know where you're coming in and you don't know where you're going out. It ends, you're going into the hallucination, or maybe coming out of it, I don't know.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Going Out, Hallucinations, Yeats

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

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• Phrase it in an interesting way; don't phrase it in a mean or unfriendly way. Bob Dole said that if there's anything he would have done differently, he would have said [to George Bush] "Start telling the truth about my record" instead of "Stop lying about my record." Frankly, had he done that, life might be different for Bob Dole today.

  Roger Ailes

  Lying, Mean, Interesting

  Source: www.campaignsandelections.com

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• I wish I could say I coined the phrase "failing forward." I do it all the time. I find as I've embraced this approach to business, life, cycling and generally any new endeavor I take on, I've grown more and more comfortable with the possibility that I am not likely to succeed on my first try. And that's ok.

  John C. Maxwell

  Cycling, Wish, Trying

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• There's when a phrase circles in my head in a number of ways for any number of days, weeks, or months, and then that eventually becomes a song. There's a slow permeation of the idea and then that leads into a bunch of themes and becomes a bunch of lines.

  Dan Mangan

  Song, Circles, Ideas

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• The phrase "Be Good to Each Other" is very important to me and something that I wish had been said more when I was in high school.

  Charlie Puth

  School, Wish, Important

  "Charlie Puth's Reason For Being Obsessed With Alicia Keys Will Make You Say, 'Heck Yes'". Interview With Kelsie Gibson, www.popsugar.com. September 7, 2016.

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• I don't like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.

  Chinua Achebe

  Mistake, Typewriters, Perfect

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• I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, "what they can live with," and more on an examination of the works of art from an aesthetic and clinical point of view.

  Edward Albee

  Art, Responsibility, Thinking

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The only thing better than good English writing is - I can't think of anything. You just don't pour it pureed over your potatoes. You savor it as if it were a find chardonnay. What on Earth does it matter if you stop and repeat a phrase, roll it around on your tongue, dart a few lines ahead and then suddenly come back and reread it? If the phrase is good enough, you are supposed to stop and rejoice in it.

  William Murchison

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

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• [Alex] Haley felt he could make a solid case in favor of racial integration by showing what was - to white America - what was the consequence of their support for racial separatism that would end up producing a kind of hate, the hate that hate produced, to use the phrase that Mike Wallace used in his 1959 documentary on the Nation of Islam.

  Manning Marable

  Hate, White, America

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• I still live today with my mom sending me, you know, Hebrew Scriptures or phrases or celebrating.

  Trevor Noah

  Mom, Live For Today, Scripture

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My mom used to tell me, I can't use this phrase on the radio - but basically don't be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Mom, Use, Radio

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I studied other singers, so I would learn how to phrase, and learn how to breathe. And the main thing was, I learned how to inhabit my song.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Song, Singers, Breathe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

  Robert Bly

  Mother, Father, Sibling

  Source: www.utne.com

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• Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Giants, Derivatives, Shoulders

  Source: www.fool.com

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• I don't know that I had a sense that there was such a thing as "the poetry world" in the 1960s and early 70s. Maybe poets did, but for me as an onlooker and reader of poetry, poetry felt like it was part of a larger literary world. I mean, even the phrase "the poetry world" reflects a sort of balkanization of American literary and artistic life that has to some extent happened since then.

  Robert Hass

  Mean, Artistic Life, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I recently heard young people talking about collective bargaining agreements - I hadn't heard young people use that phrase in forever!

  Cleve Jones

  Agreement, Talking, People

  "Legendary LGBT Activist Wants You to Get Up and Fight". Interview With Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. December 6, 2016.

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• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Profound, Quaker, Used

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Unaccountable private power concentrations that dominate economic and social life have the means to seek to "regiment the public mind," and become "tools and tyrants" of government, in James Madison's memorable phrase, as he warned of the threats he discerned to the democratic experiment if private powers were granted free rein.

  Noam Chomsky

  Memorable, Mean, Government

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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