Phrasings Quotes & Sayings

Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's. — Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

Online is a revolution. The Internet is a revolution. And we should be revolutionary in the content that we put on it rather than derivative. — Shane Smith

I've never felt normal, because I'm not normal, and I don't wanna be. I've had to face death and loss and pain in your world, but I've also never felt stronger, like more real, more myself, because it's my world too. It's where I belong. — Stephenie Meyer

And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs. — Bernice Johnson Reagon

I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones, and stuff like that. — Bucky Pope

As dizzy as the stars, as near and alone. — Karen Russell

Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live. — Honore De Balzac

As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences. — Robert Burton

The vampire who made her toes curl with his accented, old-fashioned phrasings. Be my dear — Kresley Cole

I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels. — Lasse Hallstrom

Don't be thick, James. Ladies know all about mistresses. And it isn't as if you're married. If you carry on like that once you *are* married, I'm going to be terrifically nasty to you. I'll definitely tell your wife. So beware. I don't approve."
"Of Bella, or of matrimony?"
Of married men who run about London with voluptuous women with hair the color of flax and morals that are just as lax."
She paused for a moment, but James just rolled his eyes. "It's not easy to rhyme extempore, you know," she told him. — Eloisa James

Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them. — Maria Mitchell

Jane and Elizabeth tried to explain that all five of them were capable of fending for themselves; that they could make tolerable fortunes as bodyguards, assassins, or mercenaries if need be. — Seth Grahame-Smith

His voice was oddly and beautifully rough-cut, as some small boys' voices are. Each of his phrasings was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey. — J.D. Salinger

I'm definitely really into rock music, and I feel like that is where my heart is. — Avril Lavigne

No one wanted to hear that people other than themselves might be complicated, that no one was ever just one thing, no history ever just one version. — Patrick Ness