Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I don't know that I could do a procedural legal drama and spend all my time in a courtroom talking legal jargon… — Lucas Till Copy Share Image
Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly.… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“When corporate executives get really excited, they leverage their learnings against comprehension to revolutionize English.” — Tanya Thompson Copy Share Image
Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon. — Kevin Mitnick 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
I would not be able to retain all the information, all the medical jargon these doctors do. I'm not really intelligent enough… — Justin Chambers Copy Share Image
We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
I'm extremely interested in the Russian formalists and have been for many years. I'm more drawn to their writing, which is expressive… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Try not to be either intimidated by or a captive of jargon. Even though it's language, and language is about communication, it… — Christie Hefner Copy Share Image
Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
I don't get into 'becauses.' When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
“You see a lot of jargon junkies in the navy. Usually means they don’t know their ass from a hole in the… — James W. Blinn 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
The sheer diversity of literature in the Bible is one of the secrets of its continuing popularity through the centuries. There is… — John Drane Copy Share Image
Writers today must navigate the shifting verbal currents of the post-Gutenberg era. When does jargon end and a new vernacular begin? Where's… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension.… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
I mean, when you think about it, it's 'bombs bursting in air,' 'rocket's red glare,' it's all kinds of - you know… — Bill Press 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
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
There is a certain jargon, which, in French, I should call un Persiflage d'Affaires, that a foreign Minister ought to be perfectlymaster… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Writing is such an industry now. In many ways, that's a good thing, in that it removes all the muse-like mystique and… — Russell T. Davies Copy Share Image
“For the purposes of science, information had to mean something special. Three centuries earlier, the new discipline of physics could not proceed… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Why do scientists never debate philosophers? It’s because they know they would be destroyed in argument, when they have to actually clarify… — Joe Dixon Copy Share Image
There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon. — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
I'm the know-nothing. I'm curious, I try to be entertaining, I try to translate the techno jargon, but in the end I'm… — David Pogue 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
“The program operates on facts, and extrapolates from those facts using a complex series of stochastic functions.” — Donna K. Fitch Copy Share Image
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