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The hardest portion of English, I must say it: Idioms. -- Flula Borg
Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk - it's a talk-off -- Dylan Moran
You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it. -- Eric Zorn
The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music. -- George Crumb
To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms. -- Gary Lucas
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
Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles. -- Joshua Foer
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. -- John Millington Synge
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
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
A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself. -- George Orwell
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

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