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
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
You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right,… — Nick Clegg 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
Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk -… — Dylan Moran 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 [Nobel] award [of Bob Dylan] is no affront to literature; it is an insult to pop music. It is a condescending… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but… — Quentin Crisp 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
The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
My favorite phrase, that a friend of mine who worked on the Potter films and was a lot older than me would… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Nine times out of 10 when people do a tribute album or tribute songs for somebody, it's what I call 'white boys… — David Lee Roth 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
Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of… — Isaac Bashevis Singer 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
Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom.… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image