Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Fonda

Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.

Denise Morrison

My parents had job jars because my father would say, 'Kids today have too much time, too much money and no responsibility. You're going to have no time, no money and a lot of responsibility.'

George MacDonald Fraser

Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis.

David Ogilvy

Never use jargon words like 'reconceptualize', 'demassification', 'attitudinally', 'judgmentally'. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.

Keira Knightley

I started working when I was seven, and ever since then I've been saving for an apartment. Even before that I had a little jam jar designated for my apartment money.

Participants are able to come by and stuff money into a jar that will be provided at each booth, and the cook-off contestants are able to do anything they want to raise money, ... They can coerce people, they can go into the crowd, sell things or do anything they want to do to raise money.

Edsger Dijkstra

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

Gail Porter

Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong.

Frank Sinatra

If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.

Joey King

It's very different working with all adults. I have a swear jar so that, if they have a potty mouth, I make them pay. That's what it's like being on set with adults.

Kip Thorne

'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.

Murray Rothbard

The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete with newly constructed and largely incomprehensible jargon.

Homer

If it doesn't have siamese twins in a jar, it is not a fair.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

Michael Crichton

The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.

Neil Gaiman

[I spent] much of my time reminding Matt Groening that I really need to be a head in a jar on Futurama.

Pablo Neruda

Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.

Mason Cooley

Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.

Theodor Adorno

What is or is not the jargon is determined by whether the word is written in an intonation which places it transcendently in opposition to its own meaning; by whether the individual words are loaded at the expense of the sentence, its propositional force, and the thought content.

Theodor Adorno

The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

All music jars when the soul is out of tune

You can't take God-given talent, put it in a jar and say 'I'm going to take this out,' and it just happens, ... It's going to take some time to get Joe the way we want to get him.

Rumi

Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.

Regina Spektor

Pickle jars are just pickle jars, and pickles are just pickles.

Steve Cropper

If you took a little of Sam Cooke and a little of Little Richard, and poured it in a jar and shook it up and poured it out you would get Otis Redding.

Ron Kaufman

Industry jargon may not be a language your customer understands.