“You are a reasonably civil, complaisant creature on dry land,' said Stephen, 'but the moment you are afloat you become pragmatical and… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers… — Chapman Cohen 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
“Breeze raised his dueling cane, pointing it at Ham. "I see my period of intellectual respite has come to an end." Ham… — Brandon Sanderson 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
'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past. — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say — Don Watson Copy Share Image
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems. — George Packer Copy Share Image
Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright… — Eric Bentley Copy Share Image
A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We can't really do any improv on 'The Big Bang' because we don't understand a lot of what the dialogue means to… — Johnny Galecki 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
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
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
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
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
“All this is nothing better than the jargon of a conjuror, who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the… — 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
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
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
Angus Deaton has written a wonderful book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. . . . Deaton's book… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I used to be a gibber-poet. . . . assemblages of appropriated text from cereal box side panels. I’d spell every third… — James W. Blinn Copy Share Image
Literature is an aspect of story and story is all that exists to make sense of reality. War is a story. Now… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Men love jargon. It is so palpable, tangible, visible, audible; it makes so obvious what one has learned; it satisfies the craving… — Walter Kaufmann 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
“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
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
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
It's been great, I have to dig deep for really raw emotions and at the same time I have to use my… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
I hate ideologies of all kinds, so I avoid jargon. I've done enough philosophy to know that some specialized terms are really… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
When it comes to scientific matters the ready talkers simply run riot. There are a lot of pseudo-scientists who with a little… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
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