Idiom Quotes

53 Idiom quotes by 45 unique authors

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 W. 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
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. — George Will
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
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
A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella. — Elizabeth Gilbert
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
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
You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. — Charlaine Harris
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
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
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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