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- You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right,… — Nick Clegg
- 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
- A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms… — Gilbert Ryle
- I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in… — 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… — Tyler Burge
- Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the… — Mari Evans
- Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to… — Zoltan Kodaly
- My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. 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… — Ralph Bakshi
- Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional… — Lester Bangs