Phrase Quotes - page 15

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit. (Jan Garbarek)
I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And it's not the only way to fill two hours, or to phrase things, or to order thoughts, or order ideas. View quote
Jane Campion
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. View quote
Jane Campion
You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing that your supposed solitude is at every point of its perimeter touching some other. View quote
Jane Hirshfield
And that phrase - 'sleeping like a baby.' Some blonde said it blithely on the subway the other day. I wanted to lie down next to her and scream for five hours in her ear. View quote
Jenny Offill
It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out. View quote
Joanna Lumley
I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us. View quote
John Guare
'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means. View quote
Joshua Prince-Ramus
If we have to sum up the Book of Revelation in one phrase, it would be, 'Jesus wins. View quote
Jud Wilhite
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? View quote
Julia Quinn
Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same - the best decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions. (Linda Lingle)
Every single one of us who has been a 'Woman in Film' for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase 'Women in Film.' View quote
Lynda Obst
The really explicit phrase is doors of perception. View quote
Marianne Faithfull
My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far. View quote
Miranda Richardson
To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences. View quote
Nancy Pearcey
'Priced to sell' - just the phrase makes me smile. When a dealer says all the items in his booth are priced to sell, he means he's tagged them as aggressively as he can to get you to buy them. Don't worry, though, I still haggle. You have to. That's the point of a flea market. View quote
Nate Berkus
But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well. View quote
Nathaniel Smith
I don't do nostalgia. The phrase 'the good old days' never passes my lips. View quote
Nicholas Haslam
How do you say 'bring me sausage and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?" "Look it up in the phrase book. View quote
Regina Doman
There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing. View quote
Renee Fleming
Unless we're talking about old-school, witchcraft-trial violence, can we please phase out the phrase 'girl crush?' While we're at it, if we can axe 'like, total girl crush' unless Total Girl Crush is the name of a fizzy soft drink, in which case I'll take two, thank you. (Sloane Crosley)
I think the rule of thumb should be this: if you preface a sentence about a friend with the phrase, 'I love X, but... ' more than once in any conversation, you should stop hanging out with them. View quote
Sloane Crosley
I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind. View quote
Stephen Dillane
When you're writing about people that are not very well off, you seem to see the kitchen sink. So it was a bit of a sort of cosy phrase that got used a bit too much. View quote
Timothy West
If I hear an interesting turn of phrase on TV, I'll repeat it back - I just like to roll it around on my tongue. The same goes for dialog: I'll either speak it aloud or whisper it. I definitely sit in front of my computer and mutter. People have mentioned it. View quote
Terence Winter