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“A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement.”

Real Sound Issues Policy Vices Statements Radical Meat Phrases Typical American Politics Fury Cautious Avoidance Announcements Weasels

Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“I suppose I ought to think up some dramatic, quotable phrase for Public Information and the history books, but I'm damned if any of them come to mind. Besides, admitting the truth wouldn't sound too good. The truth, Russell, is that now the moment's here, I'm scared shitless. Somehow I don't think even Public Information could turn that into good copy.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Book Moments Turns Sound Information Ought Scared Dramatic Phrases Copies Admitting History Books

Author:David Weber

“Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.”

Knows World Faces Sound Imagination Challenges Moral Environmental Climate Change Phrases Our World Emergencies Gore

Author:Al Gore

“O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound, "Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings.”

Sound Lord Wife Return Phrases Wretched Dames

Author:Charles Robert Maturin

“I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.”

Thinking Important Sound Movement Activity Rational Appeals Phrases

Book:Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

Source: Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

“We live in an age where people are like, "I'd love to catch up. Maybe text me later? But don't call because I don't really listen to my messages. But if you text me..." We've displaced interaction into sound bites and untethered phrases and sentences that come up on the phone as Twitter feed.”

People Ifs Age Sound Messages Phones Come Up Sentences Phrases Bites Interaction Sound Bites Text Me

Author:Marc Maron

“I basically try not to waste any lines in any of my songs, and I think the witty phrases and funny lyrics I have bring a smarter sound to college hip-hop.”

Thinking Trying Song Sound Lines College Waste Hip Hop Witty Hips Phrases Hops Smarter

Author:Mike Stud

“The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge--that of being a godly woman. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now. We hear about every other type of women: beautiful women, smart women, sophisticated women, career women, talented women, divorced women. But so seldom to we hear of a godly woman--or of a godly man either, for that matter. I believe women come nearer to fulfilling their God-given function in the home than anywhere else.”