“I sometimes wish I could fine people every time they use black street slang to prove how hip they are.” “Yeah, I… — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
H. L Mencken's Dictionary of the American Language supplies a long list of slang terms for being drunk, but the Irish are… — Bill Barich Copy Share Image
“How did the name misfit even come about?" Sam asked. "It's so... dumb." Willo laughed. "Well, it's really not," she said. "We… — Viola Shipman Copy Share Image
I am interested in Scripture and theology. This is an interest that I can assume I would share with a pastor, so… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
So, the thing we’re all not talking about,” he says. He gestures to me. “You almost died, a sadistic pansycake saved you,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Sure am glad I'm not royalty," I muttered. "I wouldn't want to have to bump uglies with someone I can't stand. On… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
“I found cause to wonder upon what ground the English accuse Americans of corrupting the language by introducing slang words. I think… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun. I liked different etymologies, different slang… — MF Doom Copy Share Image
“We seem to be sitting around waiting for the next fucking disaster." he said, which went into the official log as -… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
Booze' was once a popular term in the slang or 'cant' of the criminal underworld, which may explain its rebellious overtones today. — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
The only thing that kept us from going bigger worldwide was the language barrier. All the corn that we did on 'Hee… — Roy Clark Copy Share Image
“Young people dislike and even fail to understand our slang; my gay students ask me what “tricking” means. It’s all old whore’s… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“all choice of words is a slang […] correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Dauthless have the wierdest slang. Pansycake, Nose...is there a term for The Candor?" "Of course."Uriah grins."Jerks — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms. — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
“ Shakespeare used the word 'flush' to indicate plenty of money. Well, just remember there was only one Shakespeare , and he… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
“Compassion speaks with a slight accent. She was a vulnerable child, miserable in school, cold, shy … In ninth grade she was… — J. Ruth Gendler Copy Share Image
MCs get a little bit of love and think they hot, Talkin bout how much money they got...all y'all records sound the… — Stic.man Copy Share Image
“go·mer n. 1 MILITARY SLANG an inept or stupid colleague, especially a trainee. 2 INFORMAL (used mainly by doctors) a troublesome patient, especially an… — Oxford University Press Copy Share Image
I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We played a festival in Ireland once, and in the middle of 'New Slang,' the Scissor Sisters kicked in across the field… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
In the rock 'n roll slang world, they're called rock doctors, or rock docs. They would come out to shows and like… — Reginald Arvizu Copy Share Image
Being a New Jersey native, going down to the shore for my whole life, it's a big thing that out of towners… — Valerie Estelle Frankel Copy Share Image
When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy.… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
They can bite, but cannot be us, They can come and pick up little slang but cannot see us, You ought to… — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Braulio rises and extends his hands, making peace. " No hay pedo ," he says, the absurd lower-class slang for "There's no… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
I make up many words but we can go on for forever about slang words that E-40 created. That has always been… — E-40 Copy Share Image
I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“There would be another, less formal tribute to the best of the 1972 series: the name [Phil] Esposito eventually found its way… — Stephen Cole Copy Share Image
My best friend Madison keeps a list on her phone of all of the different English slang that I say, so she… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
I went to see Gerard Philipe and Jean Gabin in pictures. Gerard Philipe spoke beautiful French, while Jean Gabin spoke slang. And… — Anna Karina Copy Share Image
Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I will say it's great - that Method Man - Cliff Smith - plays a rapper in a laundromat who is working… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
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