Top 30 Deep, Inspirational Quotes About "Idiom" (2022)

"Do not count your chickens before they are hatched."

--- Aesop

#Wisdom #Literature #Chickens

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

--- Albert Einstein

#Theory #Use #Brain

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

--- Alexander P. de Seversky

#Language #Speak #Impossible

"Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained. If you have no personality, you may be able to save your face and, possibly, your entire anatomy by following the current fashion, but all we shall know about you, when we see you coming down the street, is that you had enough money to buy a glossy magazine and were sufficiently cunning to work out the cut of the garments shown therein."

--- Quentin Crisp

#Style #Ifs #Knows

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

--- Quentin Crisp

#Style #Consciousness #Personality

"It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no."

--- Zora Neale Hurston

#Mets #Humans #Human Beings

"Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in any other language. If we do not want these things to remain dead treasures, we must do our utmost to make the greatest possible number of people understand their idiom."

--- Zoltan Kodaly

#Want #Ifs #People

"People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom."

--- Woody Allen

#People #May #Stills

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

--- Woody Allen

#Writing #Actors #Idiom

"With theatre, you can interpret the most complex play on stage for it have meaning to an audience because you're dealing in images, you're dealing in action, you can use different idioms to interpret and clarify something which is obscured in the reading and of course there are different kinds of play, there are mythological plays, there are what I call the dramatic sketches, direct political theatre which is virtually everybody, but I find that you can use the stage as a social vehicle, you know, which any kind of audience."

--- Wole Soyinka

#Knows #Audience #Stage

"What goes around, comes around."

--- Willie Nelson

#Hurting Someone #Consideration For Others #Do Unto Others

"All that glitters is not gold."

--- William Shakespeare

#Values #Merchants #Gold

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

--- William Carlos Williams

#Language #English Language #Offers

"The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature of physical reality. Indeed, intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory."

--- William A. Dembski

#Hands #Facts #Reality

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

--- William A. Dembski

#Theory #Information #Theology

"The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the world and its way of accepting life. Such an idiom makes the finest language any writer can have; and he can never get it with a notebook. He himself must be able to think and feel in that speech - it is a gift from heart to heart."

--- Willa Cather

#Thinking #Feels #Way

"As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and emotional form of expression. I like to write music which takes its inspiration from poetry, art and nature. I do not care for purely decorative music. Although I am in sympathy with modern idioms, I abhor music which attempts nothing more than the illustration of a stylistic fad. And in using modern techniques, I have tried at all times to subjugate them to a larger idea or a grander human feeling."

--- Bernard Herrmann

#Writing #Ideas #Humans

"One must not consider a language as a product dead, and formed but once; it is an animate being, and ever creative. Human thought elaborates itself with the progress of intelligence; and of this thought language is a manifestation. An idiom cannot therefore remain stationary; it walks, it develops, it grows up, it fortifies itself, it becomes old, and it reaches decrepitude."

--- Wilhelm von Humboldt

#Language #Humans #Walks

"Do not put all your eggs in one basket."

--- Warren Buffett

#Practicality #Early Bird #Easter Bunny

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

--- Walter Savage Landor

#Style #Language #Spirit

"My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses–the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions–which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way."

--- Vladimir Nabokov

#Idiom #Backdrop #Second Rate

"[T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear reasons for construing discourse as ambiguous, elliptical, or involving special idioms, we should not so construe it."

--- Tyler Burge

#Natural #Should #Special

"You can't judge a book by its cover, can you?"

--- Cao Cao

#Book #Judging #Idiom

"Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby mostly offended his ear - particularly when they happened to speak philosophically; and like Karl Kraus, he suspected that the institutions could not but be corrupt if the idiom of the race was confused, presumptuous, and vacuous, a fabric of nonsense, untruth, deception, and self-deception."

--- Thomas Szasz

#Ifs #Self #Men

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

--- Charlaine Harris

#Life #Love #Honey

"If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man has grown up with--(not that one man's experience is better than another's, but that it is 'his.')--may give him something better in his substance and manner than an over-long period of superimposed idiomatic education which quite likely doesn't fit his constitution. My father used to say, 'If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven'"

--- Charles Ives

#One Man #Horse #Selected

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

--- Charles Mingus

#Style #Writing #Should

"I love you," he writes again and again. "I can't bear to live without you. I'm counting the minutes until I see you." The words he uses are the idioms of popular songs and poems in the newspaper. And mine to him are no less cliched. I puzzle over the onionskin, trying to spill my heart onto the page. But I can only come up with the same words, in the same order, and hope the depth of feeling beneath them gives them weight and substance. I love you. I miss you. Be careful. Be safe."

--- Christina Baker Kline

#Bears #Be Careful #Careful

"The disquieting thing about newscaster-babble or editorial-speak is its ready availability as a serf idiom, a vernacular of deference. "Mr. Secretary, are we any nearer to bringing about a dialogue in this process ?"

--- Christopher Hitchens

#Speak #Ready #Process

"The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the name of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. Drawing down like something trying to preserve heat. In time to wink out forever."

--- Cormac McCarthy

#Following #Reality #Names

Deep, Inspirational Quotes about "Idiom"