Idiom Quotes

Idiom Quote of the day

My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

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.

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

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

Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

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

The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of

Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.

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

It will be a sad day for the world when the Oriental gent realizes that Western bumbling is only Eastern guile in a different idiom. Well, a lot of it, anyway.

Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.

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.

A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in.

The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.

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

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

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

As far as the style, I can't say there is one definite style. I probably feel most comfortable writing in a tonal idiom, with considerable, if not extreme chromaticism.

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.

There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy: nothing-buttery, for example, always part of the minor symptomatology of the bogus.

Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.

And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom of the brain.

On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity.