#iom

To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books. ↗

— Carlos María Domínguez

#bibliophiila #book-collecting #books #collection #libraries

I'll fix it up with Mum and Dad, then I'll call you. I know how to use a fellytone now-" "A telephone, Ron," said Hermione. "Honestly, you should take Muggle Studies next year... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#idiom #muggles #ron-weasley #telephone #prison

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

— Eric Zorn

#common #idioms #notwithstanding #only #save

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#crushed #describe #down #elite #highly

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

#desire #i #i do #i think #idioms

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#axiom #done #eyes #forgotten #front

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. ↗

— George Will

#becomes #idiom #language #nation #noise

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

#doctor #i #medical #scientist

A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal. ↗

— L. Ron Hubbard

#constructed #deal #demonstrably #great #great deal

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#axiom #enforced #experience #industrially #politically