This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be… — Frank I. Cobb 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
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
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
Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“The navy is like a socialist country. Efficiency isn't part of the jargon.” — James W. Blinn Copy Share Image
The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches… — Theo James 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
Never use jargon words like 'reconceptualize', 'demassification', 'attitudinally', 'judgmentally'. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is… — DH Lawrence Copy Share Image
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand… — Anne Stevenson 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
In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction… — Don Henley 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
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. — David Ogilvy 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
“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
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
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 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
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
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
