Never let me hear that foolish word again. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like… — Gautam Adani Copy Share Image
What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools. — Robert Burns 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
It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade. — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another. — Erin McKean 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
You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage. — Martin H. Fischer Copy Share Image
If you don’t want to cry about the state of the economy, why not laugh instead? This book is an ideal introduction… — Diane Coyle 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
My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“In my earliest days of teaching I would sometimes hide behind jargon this way, learning quickly that a crowd of syllables could… — Mia Alvar 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
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
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
I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, "If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can… — Roger Ebert 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
Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and… — David Lehman 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
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
Ectoplasmic plane? What the devil is that? (Simone) It’s jargon from those of us who are corporeally challenged. It’s the great beyond… — Sherrilyn Kenyon 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
We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as… — Friedrich Engels 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business. — Corinne Maier Copy Share Image
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