Quotes of: Idiom Keyword

If you're playing with somebody from another idiom, you can't react to them in the same way that you react to somebody that is closer to your idiom. You don't fall into the same habits. You find a new way of communicating.

David Sanborn

The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.

George Crumb

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

Eric Zorn

I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.

Paul Keating

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

George Will

Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.

Gordon W. Allport

Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

Garth Hudson

To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.

Gary Lucas

Fuck, if only ‘aesthetic idiom’ didn’t sound so damn poncy.

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.

Nancy Pearcey

Like any good Englishman, he detests emotions and prefers a healthy dose of denial and tea.

The Real Meaning of Idioms

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, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

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 in many different idioms.

John Millington Synge

Major John Smith: [to Schaeffer] In your own idiom, you're a 'punk'. And a pretty second rate punk at that.

Where Eagles Dare

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

Nick Clegg

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 in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.

Ralph Bakshi

God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. It's the same in religion.

Huston Smith

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 manner.

Jacques Derrida

Cranking the Auto-Tune is so easy to do that there's almost no systemic resistance to trying it. So when someone's stuck for an idea, that's what they do. I mean, to the extent that it's been embraced by an entire idiom of club music and culture.

Steve Albini

Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.

Joshua Foer