Idiom Quotes
53 quotes by 45 authors
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As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
— George Will
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Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or…
— Dweezil Zappa
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A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2.…
— George Orwell
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A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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I'll fix it up with Mum and Dad, then I'll call you. I know how to use a fellytone now—" "A telephone, Ron," said Hermione.…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are…
— Jodi Picoult
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You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
— Charlaine Harris
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It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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I love you," he writes again and again. "I can't bear to live without you. I'm counting the minutes until I see you." The words…
— Christina Baker Kline
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Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to…
— Lincoln Kirstein
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Life is never gonna be easy. We take test every now and then. We must fully charge our battery of trust, hope and faith. These…
— Myself
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The English idiom don't judge a book by its cover is a metaphorical phrase which means you shouldn't prejudge the worth or value of something,…
— Unknown Author
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I have developed a visionary modern lyric, and, for it, an idiom in which I can write lyrically, colloquially, and dramatically. My subject is city…
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Idiom Quotes
45 authors contributed a total of 53 Idiom Quotes, led by these top contributors: