Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang. — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My man slangs rocks like up the block, 143RD and Amsterdam by the smoke shop — Redman Copy Share Image
My life changed forever when I found out the word slang was actually slang for shortened language — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
I listened a lot to Eminem and Kendrick Lamar. I liked the music, and it did help with learning slang and how… — Jon Rahm Copy Share Image
I really like language - and slang in particular, and just the shorthand we use when we communicate with people. — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the… — Laura Wade Copy Share Image
“Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision,… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's… — Dolores Hitchens Copy Share Image
That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
Young boy, let his gun bang, let his nuts hang Transition to a Lamborghini from a Mustang Drugs slang in the drug… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun. I liked different etymologies, different slang… — MF Doom Copy Share Image
Have you ever wondered why the slang terms for intoxication are so demolition-oriented? Stoned, smashed, hammered. It's because they're talking about the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down… — Joseph Furphy Copy Share Image
“The proponents of Harlem jive talk ... do not hope that courses in the lingo will ever be offered at Harvard or… — Dan Burley Copy Share Image
I’ve always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that are… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is." (Sass: know, be aware of,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon:… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“We seem to be sitting around waiting for the next fucking disaster." he said, which went into the official log as -… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
The only thing that kept us from going bigger worldwide was the language barrier. All the corn that we did on 'Hee… — Roy Clark Copy Share Image
Slang is really coded talk. I can say a few things, in front of somebody, that only people who know what I'm… — E-40 Copy Share Image
Booze' was once a popular term in the slang or 'cant' of the criminal underworld, which may explain its rebellious overtones today. — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
“Who originates the latest slang terms that are, seemingly overnight, known to every black youth across the country?” — Donald Jeffries Copy Share Image
“Young people dislike and even fail to understand our slang; my gay students ask me what “tricking” means. It’s all old whore’s… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Modern dating was a labyrinthine manscape riddled with trolls, bros, haters, and selfie-obsessed divos.” — Duncan Ralston Copy Share Image
The Dauthless have the wierdest slang. Pansycake, Nose...is there a term for The Candor?" "Of course."Uriah grins."Jerks — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Though harsh in other respects, prison would be an excellent place to learn a foreign language - total immersion, and you'd have… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a thesaurus of historical slang, and had… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“all choice of words is a slang […] correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms. — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy.… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
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