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... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer) -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much. -- A. J. Jacobs
I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative of commercial success. -- Steven Weber
I had to paraphrase the paraphrase. -- Peter Ackroyd
Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase. -- Richard Howard
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. -- Susan Sontag
God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, -- George Herbert
To paraphrase the great Will Rogers, El Rusho never met a pharmacist he did not like. -- Bill Maher
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the other forms. -- Ha-Joon Chang
God loves all his children, somehow we've forgotten, but we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago. -- Macklemore
I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth. -- Jon Krakauer
To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it. -- Mark Galli
Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ. -- Kenneth Rexroth
[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber. -- Marianne Moore
If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.' -- Terence McKenna
I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases. -- Wolf Kahn
Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself.' -- Stephen Fry
There is a wonderful ancient Sufi saying which I'm going to paraphrase slightly. It says, 'When the heart weeps for what it has lost,' in this case 'heart' means 'ego,' 'when the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit rejoices for what it has found.' -- Eckhart Tolle
Look. Every partisan in every party has to learn one thing: Sometimes your people are wrong. To paraphrase an old retort, saying "My party, right or wrong" is like saying "My Kennedy, drunk or sober." Credibility is earned, and standing up and saying "Fie!" now and then reinforces your truthfulness. -- James Lileks
Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony, to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder, is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed. -- John Cage
We are raising a generation on the spiritual junk food of religious videos, movies, youth entertainment, and comic book paraphrases of the Bible. The Word of God is being rewritten, watered down, illustrated, and dramatized in order to cater to the taste of the carnal mind. That only leads further into the wilderness of doubt and confusion. -- Dave Hunt
My mother used to say: 'It's not enough to be Hungarian. You still need a little talent, too.' To paraphrase her, its not enough to be conservative, you still need to have the brainpower to be a Supreme Court justice. And, if Harriet Miers is confirmed, she likely won't be in the same league with her colleagues in terms of gray matter. -- Dick Morris
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy. -- Ronald Reagan
To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife. -- Bruce Feirstein
There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better. -- Mary Steenburgen
Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me. -- Walter Koenig
Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase. -- Mason Cooley
Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper." -- Greg Ray
The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase. -- Vladimir Nabokov
I will not die, it's the world that will end." paraphrase of unknown philosopher -- Ayn Rand
The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna) -- Heraclitus
The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night. -- Loren Eiseley
I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little. -- Luis Federico Leloir
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To paraphrase Einstein, insanity is expecting employees to do one thing while rewarding them for doing something else. -- Robert G. Thompson
The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase) -- Giordano Bruno
To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing. -- John D. Voelker
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago. -- Roger Zelazny
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago. -- Roger Zelazny
To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground. -- Vanna Bonta
There is nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages: 'Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. -- Susan Sontag
To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family? -- Billy Graham
The paraphrase of GÃ¶del's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause its indirect self-destruction. -- Douglas Hofstadter
To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry. -- John Ciardi
An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure. -- Mark Van Doren

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