Jargon Quotes

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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own… — Nancy Pearcey
Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those… — Harold Rosenberg
The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those… — John Welch
A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric… — R. D. Laing
New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an… — Theo James
We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology. — Kevin DeYoung
Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that… — Richard Rosen
Never let me hear that foolish word again. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools. — Robert Burns
I don't get into 'becauses.' When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go to the one… — Clement Greenberg
Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet. — Wendy Kaminer
People seem to get caught up in jargon like they get caught up in ashrams and power structures and they never become free. They become… — Frederick Lenz
All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous… — Thomas Paine
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems. — George Packer
Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon. — Kevin Mitnick
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. — David Ogilvy
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. — Camille Paglia
The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye… — Ezra Pound
English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to… — Zadie Smith
If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and… — Brennan Manning

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