You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it. — Eric Zorn Copy Share Image
Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom. — Woody Allen 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
The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music. — George Crumb Copy Share Image
“The rhetoric of hate is often most effective when couched in the idiom of love.” — Gore Vidal 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
“But I do not do these things because we are family. I do them because they are common decencies. That is an… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
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
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
Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom. — Nancy Pearcey 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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
“Do those words matter? Of course they do, because they underpin an idiom that acts to remove the authority, the force, even… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and… — Bernard Herrmann 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
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
“Mother is a humble woman. Very, very humble. She toils at a small café one hour distance from our home. She presents… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I am a writer who is definitely working with a specific language and more than English, that language is American. And I… — Sam Lipsyte 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
“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
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