Idiomatic Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
— Benjamin Jowett
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: