American Idioms Quotes & Sayings

When you are going up the corporate ladder or the government ladder, you have to take some risk. — Condoleezza Rice

The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter. He had found the reason behind the peculiar, drawling language of the old carny hands - it was a composite of all the sprawling regions of the country. A language which sounded Southern to Southerners, Western to Westerners. It was the talk of the soil and its drawl covered the agility of the brains that poured it out. It was a soothing, illiterate, earthy language. — William Lindsay Gresham

Eight words to the Wiccan Rede fulfill An' it harm none, do what ye will. — Christopher Penczak

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture. — Anatole France

Did you know that people who meet at least three different times within twenty-four hour period are ninety-eight percent more likely to meet again? — Jennifer E. Smith

Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival. — William Powell

A cat has to be in a very bad mood if a human cannot coax him to purr. — Derek Tangye