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Idiom Quotes

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.

Karen Joy Fowler
Earth, Pheromones, Idiom
Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.194, Serpent's Tail

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

William Carlos Williams
Language, Heard, Idiom

The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.

Jorge Luis Borges
Sea, Idiom, Decipher

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

Gary Lucas
Way, Rhythm, Idiom

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

Eric Zorn
Time, Common, Idiom

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

Nancy Pearcey
People, Christianity, Idiom

It's all through the actors; I cannot write in that idiom

Woody Allen
Writing, Actors, Idiom

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

Peter Medawar
Philosophy, Example, Idiom
Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.3, Oxford University Press, USA

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.

Marc-Andre Hamelin
Writing, Style, Idiom
Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. November 8, 2013.

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