“ In 5 minutes, 1 minute and many other phrases most of them are a lie..., but why do we say them? Deyth Banger
“ There are few phrases that annoy me more than 'I won’t bite'. The only line that pisses me off faster is when some drunk, ham-faced dude in a bar sees me trying to get past him and barks: 'Smile, it c… Gillian Flynn
“ As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phrases—doublethink, thought police, 'Some animals are more equal than others'—that he embedded in our… Christopher Hitchens
“ We may now briefly enumerate the elements of style. We have, peculiar to the prose writer, the task of keeping his phrases large, rhythmical, and pleasing to the ear, without ever allowing them to fal… Robert Louis Stevenson
“ Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the brightness. Elizabeth Goudge
“ 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. George Orwell
“ For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas. Jasper Fforde
