Well worn phrases Quotes

“We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we’re completely beside ourselves.”

“It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.”

“In 5 minutes, 1 minute and many other phrases most of them are a lie..., but why do we say them?”

“For a wise man, I have been told, once said, ‘Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate in empty phrases.’ But alas, my lady, I am but a mass of empty phrases, it would seem.”

“I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.”

“Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.”

“How quickly people changed, with their interests, their feelings. Well-made phrases replaced by well-made phrases, time is a flow of words coherent only in appearance, the one who piles up the most is the one who wins.”

“To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe.”

“Although the repetition of a word or phrase is a preparatory practice and is itself not meditation, choosing a word or phrase that honors your belief system can be the linchpin you need for your mediation practice, providing both motivation and philosophical coherency.”