As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. — George Will Copy Share Image
Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The rhetoric of hate is often most effective when couched in the idiom of love.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music. — George Crumb Copy Share Image
On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“But I do not do these things because we are a family. I do them because they are common decencies. That is… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The 80s were deranged. People had all these liberties all of a sudden and all the freedom in the world, the Less… — Sam de Jong Copy Share Image
Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the… — Mari Evans Copy Share Image
If you're playing with somebody from another idiom, you can't react to them in the same way that you react to somebody… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort… — Ralph Bakshi Copy Share Image
I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I like to mix and match things so I'm infusing a little bit of jazz, a little bit of classical, a little… — Gino Vannelli Copy Share Image
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
“The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The phrase, ‘dollars to donuts’ came suddenly to mind. Because of the last several decades of hyperinflation, the phrase has been replaced… — Daniel Thorman Copy Share Image
The dishes of the present day are very light, and they have a particular delicacy and perfume. The secret has been discovered… — Louis-Sebastien Mercier Copy Share Image
“Mother is a humble woman. Very, very humble. She toils at a small café one hour distance from our home. She presents… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I am a writer who is definitely working with a specific language and more than English, that language is American. And I… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
I love you," he writes again and again. "I can't bear to live without you. I'm counting the minutes until I see… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and… — Bernard Herrmann Copy Share Image
From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in… — John Galt Copy Share Image
You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it. — Eric Zorn Copy Share Image
“How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. Drawing down like something trying… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
![“Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby mostly offended his ear - particularly when they happened to speak philosophically; and like Karl Kraus, he suspected that the institutions could not but be corrupt if the…” quote by Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d63/thomas-szasz-3801_confused_like-karl-kraus-wittgenstein-was-seldom_2910084.jpg)
