There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'

- Ayelet Waldman

I think the phrase 'computer-literate' is an evil phrase. You don't have to be 'automobile-literate' to get along in this world. You don't have to be 'telephone-literate.' Why should you have to be 'computer-literate'?

- Alan Cooper

'It can't be done' is not a phrase I recognize.

- Anouska Hempel

Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious.

- Ben Affleck

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.

- Bette Davis

I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase.

- Doris Lessing

He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.

- Don Hewitt

I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it.

- Gabriel Mann

I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'

- Kevin James

Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is.

- Peter Agre

There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.

- Siddhartha Mukherjee

Disinterested public service has become, just so... what's the phrase, 'old school.'

- Tina Brown