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- 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
- [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
- Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional… — Lester Bangs
- If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man… — Charles Ives
- By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only… — George Orwell
- A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The… — George Orwell
- As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and… — Bernard Herrmann
- The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them.… — Maxine Hong Kingston
- You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it. — Eric Zorn
- Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk -… — 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