People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom. — Woody Allen 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
You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it. — Eric Zorn Copy Share Image
I'll fix it up with Mum and Dad, then I'll call you. I know how to use a fellytone now—" "A telephone,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The English idiom don't judge a book by its cover is a metaphorical phrase which means you shouldn't prejudge the worth or… — Wikipedia 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
Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of… — Linton Kwesi Johnson 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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 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
“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
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
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
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
If you do not know where your competitor is, or overconfident and snobbish about your competitor, or are unable to comprehend how… — Jack Ma 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
Life is never gonna be easy. We take test every now and then. We must fully charge our battery of trust, hope… — Myself 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
[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
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
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
“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
Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory. — William A. Dembski 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
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