Idioms Quotes

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
Great Enemy Words Language Long Exhausted Aims Great Enemy Out Insincerity Clear Long Words Between Instinctively Like Idioms Real Were Turns Gap Ink
You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it. Eric Zorn
Buy Time You Spend Only Idioms Common Notwithstanding Save
The hardest portion of English, I must say it: Idioms. Flula Borg
Say Must Idioms English Hardest Portion
The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music. George Crumb
Music Has-Been Vocal Remarkable Development New Instrumental Idioms Been Phenomena Recent
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
God Religion You People Speak Language Thought Own Take Idioms Person Same Different Chinese Spanish Different Language Different People Use Each Express
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
Pure Believe Think Sign Writes Idioms Irreplaceable Manner Speaks Naturally Whoever Desire
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