Idiomatic Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

• All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic. — Benjamin Jowett
• 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
• 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
• When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
• 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
• Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is also an idiomatic… — Jessica Helfand
• I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns… — Hari Kunzru
• Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other… — Robert A. Heinlein
• Technical advisor. Since you know our enemies so well, we’re going to pick your brain. (Jericho) I’ll tell you what you want to know. There's… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
• Why don’t you purchase an Italian dictionary? I will assume the expense.” “I have one,” she said, “but I don’t think it’s very good. Half… — Julia Quinn
• But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this… — Jacques Derrida
• Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular… — Albert Murray
• The greatness of Mac Rebennack, alias, Dr. John, also known as John Crieux, rests on his command of the musical use of idiomatic expression. Not… — Jon Landau

Who Wrote These Idiomatic Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 13 Idiomatic Quotes as follows:

• 2 Idiomatic Quotes by Jacques Derrida
• 1 Idiomatic Quote by Robert A. Heinlein
• 1 Idiomatic Quote by Sherrilyn Kenyon
• 1 Idiomatic Quote by Julia Quinn
• 1 Idiomatic Quote by Albert Murray
• 1 Idiomatic Quote by Jon Landau
• 1 Idiomatic Quote by Benjamin Jowett
• 1 Idiomatic Quote by Charles Ives
• 1 Idiomatic Quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater
• 1 Idiomatic Quote by Pat Metheny
• 1 Idiomatic Quote by Jessica Helfand
• 1 Idiomatic Quote by Hari Kunzru