It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it. — Eric Zorn 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
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
Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to… — Zoltan Kodaly 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
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
[T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear… — Tyler Burge 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
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
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 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
My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my… — Vladimir Nabokov 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
Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom… — Dylan Thomas 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