I was beginning to think I had let 'my alligator mouth…

It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions…

— Zora Neale Hurston

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

— Eric Zorn

“There is a hidden power in details”

— Sabeesh Yemmay

Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and inherent knowledge…

— David Biespiel

From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is…

— John Galt

Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in…

— Zoltan Kodaly

“The rhetoric of hate is often most effective when couched in the idiom of love.”

— Gore Vidal

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

— Charles Mingus

My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I…

— Sergei Prokofiev

People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom.

— Woody Allen

It's all through the actors; I cannot write in that idiom

— Woody Allen

A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to…

— Gilbert Ryle

All that glitters is not gold.

— William Shakespeare

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and…

— John Millington Synge

[T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear reasons for…

— Tyler Burge