Colloquial Quotes
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“Mission motto, sir," said Carrot cheerfully. "Morituri Nolumus Mori. Rincewind suggested it." "I imagine he did," said Lord Vetinari, observing the wizard coldly. "And would you care to give us a colloquial translation, Mr Rincewind?" "Er ... " Rincewind hesitated, but there really was no escape. "Er ... roughly speaking, it means, We who are about to die dont want to, sir.”
— Terry Pratchett —
“Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io.
Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better.
Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend.”
— Dan Simmons
“There wasn't a colloquial phrase, or curse, that went something like, "May your day be full of angry dragons" or, "May every dragon you meet today be pissed off." But, there should have been.”
— Michelle Sagara West
“I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.”
— Etgar Keret
— James Patterson
— Michael Dirda
— Dwight Yoakam
“The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
“I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.”
— David Antin
“I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson was - and is. Surely his record for versatility, studied characterization - ranging from modern colloquial to the classics - and artistic integrity is unsurpassed.”
— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
“My education and that of my Black associates were quite different from the education of our white schoolmates. In the classroom we all learned past participles, but in the streets and in our homes the Blacks learned to drop s's from plurals and suffixes from past-tense verbs. We were alert to the gap separating the written word from the colloquial. We learned to slide out of one language and into another without being conscious of the effort. At school, in a given situation, we might respond with "That's not unusual." But in the street, meeting the same situation, we easily said, "It be's like that sometimes.”
— Maya Angelou
“First person singular obtaining colloquial orgasm within a Caledonian sandwich' it said, then looked annoyed, and spoke incoherently into a grille set in its belly which replied. It looked up and said, 'Sorry, as I was saying: I come in peace”
— Iain M. Banks
“Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.”
— Thornton Wilder
“Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd,
And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.”
— William Cowper
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