“There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated to be used on products that might be sold anywhere from Japan to Denmark - words devised to be pronounceable in a hundred languages. And when you detach one of these words from the product it was designed to serve, the words acquires a chantlike quality.” MightUsedCertainLanguageQualityOur LivesProductsComputerHundredPhrasesAcquireJapanMysticismMysticalFloatsDenmark Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo
“If I take a lick from so and so, I'm not going to get that many variations from it, because their phrases are just based on a scale. That's why I say Wes Montgomery has more substance than others. I find myself listening to the older players. You see one bar of theirs and you can get one hundred more licks out of it.” IfsPlayerListeningHundredScalesBarsSubstancePhrasesVariationMontgomery Author:Emily Remler
“Five-hundred years ago people were saying in manuscripts, "Can you believe these kids today?" They were saying that same phrase everyone says now. No one can believe the youth and what they're doing and how culture is going and how it might fall apart.” PeopleYearsBelieveMightKidsTodayFallCultureFiveYouthHundredYears AgoPhrasesFalling ApartManuscripts Author:Joel McHale
“People speak because they are afraid of silence. They speak mechanically whether aloud or to themselves. They are intoxicated by this vocal gruel that ensnares every object and every being. They talk about rain and fine weather; they talk about money, about love, about nothing. And even when they are talking about their most exalted love, they use words uttered a hundred times, threadbare phrases.” PeopleUseSpeakSilenceTalkingObjectsFineHundredRainWeatherPhrasesVocalExaltedIntoxicatedFine Weather Author:Andreï Makine
“Every human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which seems so lavish, reduces itself to a hundred routine formulas at most, which he repeats over and over.” MenHumansSeemsTurnsHundredEvery ManPhrasesRepeatsOccupationRoutineFormulasVocabularyTwistsTwists And Turns Author:Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
“If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, "I have heard Rabelais.". And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine.” IfsYearsNightFallHoursSleepAnswersLaughingFiveHeardLaughterExpectationsHundredWineBreadPhrasesFive YearsOne HourCaressBread And WineOverloaded Author:Anais Nin