Never let me hear that foolish word again. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau 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
The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon. — Michael Crichton 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
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
The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon. — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
“When corporate executives get really excited, they leverage their learnings against comprehension to revolutionize English.” — Tanya Thompson 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
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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
Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of… — Marjorie Garber 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
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
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 suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing… — Bill Bryson 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
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. — David Ogilvy 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
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
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
Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say — Don Watson 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
Language is essentially tribal, so jargon can actually be a really good thing because it unites people. — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
“The navy is like a socialist country. Efficiency isn't part of the jargon.” — James W. Blinn Copy Share Image
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