EMOTIONALLY, I was AFFECTED a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal INTENTION of the WORDS or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.

One of the most overused phrases in POLITICAL COMMENTARY is that SOMEONE is RUNNING a 'negative' CAMPAIGN filled with 'attack' ads.

I THINK you REMEMBER CERTAIN phrases from BAD REVIEWS. You don't remember all the bad reviews.

I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you KNOW' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing DIALOGUE, I tend to USE those phrases because that's how PEOPLE talk.

I think there are phrases that are EXCITING to a certain GROUP WITHIN the Democratic PARTY but scare the crap out of other people.

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.

A marvellous POWER of expression over language often distinguishes GENIUS; but Shakespeare in his phrases SEEMS INDEPENDENT of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.