Old Colloquial Quotes & Sayings

People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech. When I started writing, I thought [the language] was telling the story of this country: old people in a young nation, very religious, very conservative, very tight-assed, but also very anarchistic, very open-minded. It's all in the language, and that's one thing that doesn't translate. — Etgar Keret

If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try. — W. H. Auden

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

Most people who love movies and kind of understand the process realize that if you do a character like Gollum or Jar Jar or any major digital character, that costs twice as much as having Tom Cruise in a movie. — Rick McCallum

Shop for what we wanted, then hunt for garments with blue tags, removing them with the staple remover and restapling the tags to our garments. Sickening, — Janet Mock

People who don't read are brutes. — Eugene Ionesco

A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth. — Ambrose Bierce

I care not a jot for immortal life, but only for the taste of tea. — Lu Tong

Even a brilliant mind sometimes needs a dull stone to sharpen itself. — Ken Liu

The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy — Jacob Zuma