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Idiomatic Quotes by Jacques Derrida
- 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…
- 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…
More Idiomatic Quotes
- 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… — Jacques Derrida
- If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man… — Charles Ives
- When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple… — 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… — Pat Metheny
- Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is… — 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… — Hari Kunzru
- Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said… — Robert A. Heinlein