Quotes About Colloquialism

#1. Martin was a thoroughly amiable man, a man of wide reading, but when he came to write he mounted upon a pair of stilts, unusually lofty stilts, and staggered along at a most ungracious pace, with an occasional awkward lurch into colloquialism, giving a strikingly false impression of himself.

Patrick O'Brian

#2. If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation marks. To do so is to put on airs, as though you were inviting the reader to join you in a select society of those who know better.

William Strunk Jr.

#3. He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions ... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the

H.G.Wells

#4. In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary
from book to book. But in many books, there is a colloquialism of address. The characters will speak in a quite idiosyncratic way sometimes.

Don DeLillo

#5. Colloquialism is the toughest part of what we do, as foreign actors, because there are certain sayings that you guys have that absolutely don't make any sense.

Boris Kodjoe

#6. I'm really quite conscious of clothes and the way they fit and don't regret wearing anything. Not even the five-inch stack heels I wore with three-button high-waisters at comprehensive school. Regret is for wimps.

Kevin McCloud

#7. We need to save the forests. I have a big warehouse we can store them in.

Bauvard

#8. The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

Imran Khan

#9. Happy people are those who use a lower threshold in order to label an event positive.

David Niven

#10. May be there are entire worlds where there are no fences, where feeling bears you like a tide.

Jodi Picoult

#11. I didn't want this crap, I didn't ask for this crap, so why the hell was I neck deep in so much crap?

Jaymin Eve

#12. The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.

Alan Alda