Idioms Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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