Idiom Quotes

53 quotes by 47 authors

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
You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it. — Eric Zorn
The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature of physical reality. Indeed, intelligent… — William A. Dembski
Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom. — Karen Joy Fowler
Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk - it's a talk-off — Dylan Moran
To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms. — Gary Lucas
Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom. — Nancy Pearcey
When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt… — Jim Woodring
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species. — Gordon Allport
For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The… — James Fenton
The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music. — George Crumb
Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance… — Linton Kwesi Johnson
Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that… — Richard Rosen
I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage. — Paul Keating
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were,… — George Orwell
Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think… — John Millington Synge

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