Phatic Speech Quotes & Sayings

I don't like to analyze my music too much. It just comes welling up out of the depths of my soul. — Larry David

At last Fingon stood alone with his guard dead about him; and he fought with Gothmog, until another Balrog came behind and cast a thong of fire about him. Then Gothmog hewed him with his black axe, and a white flame sprang up from the helm of Fingon as it was cloven. Thus fell the High King of the Noldor; and they beat him into the dust with their maces; and his banner, blue and silver, they trod into the mire of his blood. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Acceptance is a far better word and denotes a more positive attitude than resignation; I've always known that, but in recent days I've found one which is better still; it is consent. — Faith Baldwin

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. — Hugo Black

There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. — Oscar Wilde

You're not very good at this, are you?'
'At what I do, I'm the best. This isn't what I do. — James Sallis

Maybe no man is an island, but some sure look like one. — Carrie Fisher

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind. — Thomas Paine

The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree. — Charles R. Swindoll

To think you cannot fight fate is only an act of surrender. — John Duigan

It never ceases to amaze me that readers who are willing to suspend their disbelief when it comes to the motivation of a vicious serial killer get high and mighty because I have put a coffee shop where there isn't one. Er ... it's a novel. I made one up. I'm allowed to make stuff up. I'd go as far as to suggest that I make stuff up for a living. — Mark Billingham