#idiom

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

#between #clear #declared #enemy #exhausted

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

— Charlaine Harris

#idiom #optimism #humor

There were a lot of terms you had to learn, as opposed to the shylock business where all you had to know how to say was "Give me the fuckin money". ↗

— Elmore Leonard

#humor #idiom #mafia #mob #movie-business

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 #i do #idioms #make #rhythms

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#best #clever #condescension #humble #humility

Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#american kids #fantasy #had #homage #i