“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
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species. — Anonymous 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
The style, often found difficult in the earlier books, is just as individual but more perfectly modulated to experience, and the dialogue… — Geoffrey Dutton Copy Share Image
The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the… — Willa Cather 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
The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music. — George Crumb Copy Share Image
The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them.… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
“Imagine if you will: At the highly secretive, largely independent, inter-dimensional and (inevitably) clandestine organization called the Time Saving Agency, there is… — Christina Engela 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
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
For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
“I was beginning to think I had let 'my alligator mouth overload my jaybird ass.” — Hal Needham Copy Share Image
Now it seems to me that we are in a universalising period... If we are to have world peace, we should have… — Mark Tobey 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
Cranking the Auto-Tune is so easy to do that there's almost no systemic resistance to trying it. So when someone's stuck for… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
The disquieting thing about newscaster-babble or editorial-speak is its ready availability as a serf idiom, a vernacular of deference. "Mr. Secretary, are… — Christopher Hitchens 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
