| "___ one's life depended on it" | 45 |
| "___ I didn't already know" | 41 |
| "__ you didn't know!" | 35 |
| ''Oh, you wish!'' | 33 |
| ''Like that'll ever happen'' | 48 |
| ''Clueless'' exclamation | 40 |
| "__ sure you're aware Â…" | 42 |
| "Sure __ standing ..." | 32 |
| "Just ___ about to ..." | 33 |
| "___ sure you know..." | 32 |
| "__ sure you've heard ..." | 40 |
| "__ sure you know ..." | 32 |
| 'Sure -- standing here!' | 32 |
| ''___ sure you know ...'' | 41 |
| '-- sure you already know ...' | 38 |
| ''I, Robot'' author | 35 |
| "The Robots of Dawn" author | 37 |
| "The Gods Themselves" author Isaac | 44 |
| Prolific science fiction author Isaac | 37 |
| "Pebble in the Sky" author | 36 |
| ''The Naked Sun'' author Isaac | 46 |
| One of the Big Three of science fiction | 39 |
| He, Isaac, of "I, Robot" | 34 |
| He wrote guides to Shakespeare and the Bible | 44 |
| Creator of the Three Laws of Robotics | 37 |
| Author of the Three Laws of Robotics | 36 |
| "The Stars, Like Dust" author | 39 |
| "The End of Eternity" author | 38 |
| "The Caves of Steel" writer | 37 |
| "Puzzles of the Black Widowers" author | 48 |
| "I, Robot" author Isaac | 33 |
| "Foundation" trilogy writer | 37 |
| "Foundation" author Isaac | 35 |
| "Foundation's Edge" author Isaac | 46 |
| "Foundation's Edge" author | 40 |
| "Foundation Trilogy" writer | 37 |
| "Foundation Trilogy" author | 37 |
| ''The End of Eternity'' author | 46 |
| "It's ___ to tell a lie" | 38 |
| "It's ___ to tell . . . " | 39 |
| "Pleasure's ___ . . . ": Byron | 44 |
| "It's ___" (Pet Shop Boys hit) | 44 |
| Speller's words of clarification | 36 |
| ''It's ___ to Tell a Lie'' | 46 |
| Words of explanation, to a speller | 34 |
| Words of explanation in spelling | 32 |
| Part of a speller's clarification | 37 |
| "Z" ___ "zebra" | 35 |
| "It's --- to Tell a Lie" | 38 |
| "It's _____ to tell a lie" | 40 |
| "It's ___ to tell ..." | 36 |
| "It's __ to tell ..." | 35 |
| "I sometimes hold it half ___ . . . " | 47 |
| "___ neighbor and weigh" | 34 |
| " . . . ___ to covet honor": Shak. | 44 |
| 'Here we are olden days ...' -- | 39 |
| Literally, "like a donkey" | 36 |
| "Come to think of it ..." | 35 |
| "If memory serves ..." | 32 |
| "This could be wrong, but..." | 39 |
| "Buyer beware" warning | 32 |
| "Buyer beware" notation | 33 |
| ''Not returnable'' | 34 |
| "The way things are ..." | 34 |
| ''Warts and all'' | 33 |
| ''No guarantees'' | 33 |
| Without a guarantee of condition | 32 |
| 1985 William M. Hoffman play about AIDS | 39 |
| "Take it or leave it!" | 32 |
| "Let the buyer beware" tag | 36 |
| "Caveat emptor" phrase | 32 |
| "Caveat emptor" notice | 32 |
| ''Buyer beware'' phrase | 39 |
| ''To repeat . . .'' | 35 |
| Words from one about to quote himself | 37 |
| ''To reiterate ...'' | 36 |
| ''Be that ___ may . . .'' | 41 |
| ". . . ___ is in heaven" | 34 |
| " . . . ___ is in Heaven" | 35 |
| "___ was in the beginning ..." | 40 |
| Didion's "Play It ___ Lays" | 41 |
| "Play It ___ Lays": Didion | 36 |
| "Be that ___ may . . ." | 33 |
| ". . . on Earth ___ is in Heaven" | 43 |
| "___ was in the beginning..." | 39 |
| ''. . . ___ is in heaven'' | 42 |
| ''___ turns out . . .'' | 39 |
| Didion's "Play It _____ Lays" | 43 |
| "...___ is in heaven": Matthew | 40 |
| "... --- is in heaven" | 32 |
| ". . . earth ___ is in heaven" | 40 |
| "___ was in the beginning" | 36 |
| "___ was in the beginning . . . " | 43 |
| 'Strange -- may seem ...' | 33 |
| ''Be that __ may . . .'' | 40 |
| ''... ___ is in heaven'' | 40 |
| ''___ was in the beginning ...'' | 48 |
| "The way things stand ..." | 36 |
| "How things stand ..." | 32 |
| "Given the situation ..." | 35 |