Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk -… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory. — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms. — Gary Lucas Copy Share Image
Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible. — Alexander P. de Seversky Copy Share Image
Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus. — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
“I was beginning to think I had let 'my alligator mouth overload my jaybird ass.” — Hal Needham Copy Share Image
“The Devil for a joke Might carve his own initials on our desk, And yet we'd miss the point because he spoke… — Donald Davie Copy Share Image
Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“There were a lot of terms you had to learn, as opposed to the shylock business where all you had to know… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom.… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy: nothing-buttery, for example, always part of the minor symptomatology of the bogus. — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right,… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play… — Garth Hudson Copy Share Image
There is a very beautiful expression in the Hebrew language that's borrowed from spoken Torah... 'All is predicted, and permission is given… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
I don't believe, in the end, that there is any such thing as no style. Even a very neutral, plain style, one… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
One must not consider a language as a product dead, and formed but once; it is an animate being, and ever creative.… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
The [Nobel] award [of Bob Dylan] is no affront to literature; it is an insult to pop music. It is a condescending… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature of physical… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Beaumont specifically pointed out that the cultural elements and idioms regarded as "Egyptian" could not have originated in the land of the… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
With theatre, you can interpret the most complex play on stage for it have meaning to an audience because you're dealing in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
“He tried to think of something to say but could not. He's had this feeling before, beyond the numbness and the dull… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“waiting for the other shoe to drop. Did you know it originated in cities like Chicago and New York?” “No. I did… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
My favorite phrase, that a friend of mine who worked on the Potter films and was a lot older than me would… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
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