His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Words like meditation, karma, samskaras, they're just words. You can get into the jargon, you can speak it, but that doesn't mean… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?' — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade. — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
“Puddings, my dear sir?' cried Graham. Puddings. We trice 'em athwart the starboard gumbrils, when sailing by and large.” — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like… — Gautam Adani Copy Share Image
In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
It's very intimidating looking at the script and realizing that you have to say medical jargon as if you've said them a… — Odette Annable Copy Share Image
It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
What is or is not the jargon is determined by whether the word is written in an intonation which places it transcendently… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, "If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“I detest jargon of every kind, and sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Sometimes the hardest part I think for actors on '24' is some of the jargon and getting the ideas and the thoughts… — Cherry Jones Copy Share Image
You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Accurate and just reasoning is the only catholic remedy, fitted for all persons and all dispositions; and is alone able to subvert… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Most people assume that physician language is akin to technical, non-understandable jargon. It does not have to be that way. Doctors do… — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to… — John Welch Copy Share Image
Dave Stark has taken the best of recent marketplace management concepts and married them to timeless biblical principles of leadership, translating business… — Jonathan Reckford Copy Share Image
“How does one say in the jargon of musicology that my sould was pulled out of me and thrown up in the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Hidden behind the facade of pompous jargon and noble affections, there is more sheer larceny per square foot on the floor of… — Richard Ney Copy Share Image
Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's… — Peer Steinbruck Copy Share Image
Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
Art criticism everywhere is now at a low ebb, intellectually corrupt, swamped in meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctitudes, anxiously addressed only… — Brian Sewell Copy Share Image
Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Human relationships are about communicating. Business jargon should be banished in favor of simple English. Simplicity is a sign of truth and… — Helena Rubinstein Copy Share Image
Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
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