In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang. — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
I know you like the way I am freakin' it. I talk with slang and I'm never gonna stop speakin' it. — Big L Copy Share Image
“Sometimes advises from others are more difficult to bear with than even slang.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
The street slang I be speakin in code. Kick in the do's, freakin the flow 'til the speakers explode. — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Shady flow: Johnny Cage, chain flow: Johnny Dang. Been balling, six bottles, talk with such expensive slang. — Wale Copy Share Image
“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Keep my planets in orbit, Never forfeit or quit, Move forward... I talk with the awkward slang, I walk with the Wu-Tang. — RZA Copy Share Image
Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“ABSQUATULATE To flee, abscond, or boogie. This facetious frontier slang combines the notion of speculating with squatting or camping. An example of… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own… — Yolandi Visser Copy Share Image
My people have very subtle slang, inflections and ways of saying things that has little to do with words. If you're from… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
One of the main aims of Sharon is to prevent a Palestinian state - a real, viable, sovereign, free Palestinian state. It… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
“Slang, too, is the wholesome fermentation or eructation of those processes eternally active in language, by which froth and specks are thrown… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Slang has always moved this way. From Cockney rhyming slang to codes swapped among highwaymen, they're tribal badges of identity, bonding mechanisms… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
“Ah, the boo. The boo is the most maligned, gossiped about, ridiculed figure in the pantheon of prison characters. Boo, which is… — Erin George Copy Share Image
“I nod seriously, "Supes." "You're mocking me." "A little bit." "People say supes!" "What people?" "I can't believe you're shaming me right… — Lauren Miller Copy Share Image
I would always talk with my friends in English and Spanglish, but it was more like slang. It was more like, 'Yo,… — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
Slang has different functions: many of the words we use are playful and a lot are tribal - we speak the same… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
There is something false in this search for a purely feminine writing style. Language, such as it is, is inherited from a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I am interested in Scripture and theology. This is an interest that I can assume I would share with a pastor, so… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
So, the thing we’re all not talking about,” he says. He gestures to me. “You almost died, a sadistic pansycake saved you,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Sure am glad I'm not royalty," I muttered. "I wouldn't want to have to bump uglies with someone I can't stand. On… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
“I found cause to wonder upon what ground the English accuse Americans of corrupting the language by introducing slang words. I think… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
“I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist;… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In general, American slang is much better than English slang. The entire world picks up American slang. — Jesse Sheidlower Copy Share Image
