My issue with all sort of social justice stuff and leftie…

You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous…

— Doris Lessing

Ectoplasmic plane? What the devil is that? (Simone) It’s jargon from those of us who are corporeally challenged. It’s the great beyond where we…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

— Shirley Hufstedler

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for…

— Richard Mitchell

Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and…

— Harold Rosenberg

“Writing is such an industry now. In many ways, that's a good thing, in that it removes all the muse-like mystique and makes it…

— Russell T. Davies

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

— Anonymous

Clutter is the disease of American writing,

— William Zinsser

Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved…

— Pierre Hadot

I mean, when you think about it, it's 'bombs bursting in air,' 'rocket's red glare,' it's all kinds of - you know a lot…

— Bill Press

Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to…

— Thomas Szasz

Writers today must navigate the shifting verbal currents of the post-Gutenberg era. When does jargon end and a new vernacular begin? Where's the line…

— Constance Hale

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its…

— Nancy Pearcey

Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet.

— Wendy Kaminer

It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by…

— Matt Ridley