As I go about my daily life, phrases from "The Church Porch", the first section of Herbert's poem "The Temple", often come to mind.
For the narrator, the Septet becomes an allegory of his life; phrases recurring from the Sonata remind him of past loves as well as of the sorrows of the now deceased Swann.
They bristle with scrawled phrases and cutout letters that convey the cyberbabble of everyday life: phrases like "I Love Your Bag!" and "I'm Big in Berlin" are, according to the gallery news release, drawn from the artist's own writings, blog posts, news releases, recipes and an "e-mailed survey of irrational fears".
In life, the phrase I overuse the most is the Monty Python foot.
Coburn considered it his job to protect Quinlan's "constitutional right to life," a phrase that echoed the central tenet of the pro-life movement.
Addiction itself, for example, is encapsulated as "things you enjoy doing more than life", a phrase greeted by howls of recognition.
After admitting he'd come unprepared, Michael bashfully delivered some uplifting bumper-sticker slogans about keeping a positive outlook on life (a phrase he used three times).
The key to Swinton's career, her parenting, her life – the phrase she returns to repeatedly – is comfort with mayhem, wildness beneath the surface.
But instead the words declared (in German), "God is love and life," a phrase that seemed, he writes, as "serene and transcendent as the snow-capped mountains".
Unfairly or not, Tupac Shakur's name has become synonymous with violent rap lyrics and "thug life" (a phrase Tupac had tattooed across his midriff).
