Idiom Quotes

53 Idiom quotes by 45 unique authors

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue,… — Nick Clegg
There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of love... In a… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.… — Gilbert Ryle
I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable… — Jacques Derrida
The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of — William Carlos Williams
[T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear reasons for construing… — Tyler Burge
Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a… — Mari Evans
Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in any… — Zoltan Kodaly
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest… — Sergei Prokofiev
Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory. — William A. Dembski
Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for… — Ralph Bakshi
Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional period is on… — Lester Bangs
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
French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted to the use… — Peter Medawar
If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man has grown up… — Charles Ives
The style, often found difficult in the earlier books, is just as individual but more perfectly modulated to experience, and the dialogue is much closer… — Geoffrey Dutton
By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader… — George Orwell
Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar.… — Garth Hudson
The dishes of the present day are very light, and they have a particular delicacy and perfume. The secret has been discovered of enabling us… — Unknown Author
If you do not know where your competitor is, or overconfident and snobbish about your competitor, or are unable to comprehend how yourcompetitor became a… — Jack Ma
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. To me if… — Pat Metheny
I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely rejected. I just… — Pat Metheny
A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of… — George Orwell
As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and emotional form of… — Bernard Herrmann
The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have… — Maxine Hong Kingston

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