“Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.” SeemsEyeReadingNovelFinePagesBeachPhrasesCarolsChristmas Carol Author:Dorothy Parker
“His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books, at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports, must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero!” YearsHas BeensBookBodyStyleHeroPagesDistanceLipsRhythmBurningPhrasesThirtyShockMarchReceivingElectricThrillTransportThirty YearsStirringGreat MusicChorusHandelVivekanandaElectric Shock Author:Romain Rolland
“The metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature not naturally its own.” WealthEconomicTheoryPagesPhrasesAcquireMetalsTemperatureEconomic Theory Book:Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
“The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly often - completely surprising combinations that make a higher kind of sense, that come to you out of nowhere. But rarely for extended periods, for paragraphs and pages - I think poets must have more access to this state than novelists do.” ThinkingKindStatesMomentsHappensLossPoetHigherPeriodsPagesAccessCombinationNovelistsPhrasesSurprisingParagraphRaptureBest Moments Author:Don DeLillo
“Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience, they wouldn’t feel so drawn to writing to make sense of their lives. It’s not the outsider’s facility for language that makes her a writer — many a student body president or homecoming queen can turn a phrase — but her ability to howl at the moon, on the page.” IfsFeelsWritingHumansBodyTurnsLanguagePresidentAbilityStudentsMoonPagesMake SenseQueensPhrasesOutsidersHuman ExperienceFacilityHowlHomecomingHomecoming Queen Author:Karen Karbo
“The phrase 'I just turn on my monkey and it makes me feel good' sounds very dirty, but I can't explain why. It's great to try to use expressions like that on the comics page. People want to complain but they can't, because they can't figure out quite what they should be complaining about.” PeopleWantFeelsShouldTryingI CanUseTurnsSoundFiguresExpressionPagesComplainingFeel GoodDirtyPhrasesMonkeysTurn-on Author:Stephan Pastis
“Sometimes, your eyes see something your brain doesn't. You pick up a nmewspaper and yourhead gives you a phrase that you didn't consciously read yet. You walk into a room and you realize something's out of place before you've bothered to properly look. I felt that happening now." "Sam's thoughts on page 304 of Linger.” GivingLooksSometimesEyeFeltRealizingWalksRoomsBrainPagesHappeningsPicksPhrasesBothered Author:Maggie Stiefvater