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«These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.»
Author: Claude M. Bristol | Keywords: convincing, methods, phrased, phrases, phrasing, repetitive, subconscious, subconscious mind
«I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.»
Author: Harold Ross (Writer) | About: Writing | Keywords: Lardner, phrases, piece of paper, piece of writing, Ring Lardner, separated, short stories, short story, Short words, spaces, The short story, widely
«Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases»
Author: James Bryant Conant | About: Mankind | Keywords: magic spell, phrases, spell
«Spiritual and religious traditions, when shaped by the feminine principle, affirm the cyclical phrases of our lives and the wisdom each phase brings, the sacredness of our bodies and the body of the Earth»
Author: Patrick Wynne | About: Traditions, Wisdom | Keywords: affirm, cyclical, phrases, sacredness, shaped, Traditions
«The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.»
Author: Thomas W. Higginson (Abolitionist, Author, Clergyman, Minister) | About: Writers | Keywords: phrases
«Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.»
Author: Charles Churchill | Keywords: cull, culled, nightly, phrases, racking, the rack
«Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.»
Author: Evelyn Waugh | About: Books, Duty, Reading | Keywords: arresting, craving, phrases, reviewer, reviewers, unhealthy
«The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.»
Author: Fred Allen (Comedian) | About: America and Americans | Keywords: arrives, beret, conversational, cull, culled, owns, Paris, phrases, picked
«O Fame! if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.»
Author: Lord Byron | About: Fame | Keywords: Bright Eyes, high-sounding, phrases, sounding, unworthy
«Life defies our phrases, it is infinitely continuous and subtle and shaded, whilst our verbal terms are discrete, rude and few.»
Author: William James (Philosopher, Psychologist) | Keywords: continuous, defies, discrete, phrases, rude, shaded, verbal
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