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
“I was beginning to think I had let 'my alligator mouth overload my jaybird ass.” — Hal Needham Copy Share Image
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. — George Will 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
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
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
Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory. — William A. Dembski 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
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
Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play… — Garth Hudson Copy Share Image
“But I do not do these things because we are a family. I do them because they are common decencies. That is… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
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
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
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
Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
“The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Most historians accept that Egypt was a cradle of civilization, and that many cultural idioms and traditions come from there. What has… — Michael Tsarion 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
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
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“waiting for the other shoe to drop. Did you know it originated in cities like Chicago and New York?” “No. I did… — Penny Reid 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
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
With theatre, you can interpret the most complex play on stage for it have meaning to an audience because you're dealing in… — Wole Soyinka 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
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
“He tried to think of something to say but could not. He's had this feeling before, beyond the numbness and the dull… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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