Academese Quotes & Sayings

Your hug should be more than an embrace of affection. It represents her safety and security. It should make her feel truly loved. — Tony Curl

To what profit is it that we dwell in Jerusalem, if we do not see the King's face? And when He comes forth from His royal chambers, accompanied with blessing, are we to hold ourselves at leisure that we may yield Him worship and offer Him service? — David McIntyre

San: You all right?
Virt: I think i crapped myself a little
Sam: Just a little? you've got nerves of steel. — Michael Grant

I just happened to be in the right place at the right time." I think about this for a moment. "But isn't that what being psychic is? — Jodi Picoult

I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend. — Richard D. Zanuck

This was in [Orwell's] 1946 'Politics and the English Language,' an essay that despite its date (and its title's basic redundancy) remains the definitive SNOOT statement on Academese. Orwell's famous AE translation of the gorgeous 'I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift' in Ecclesiastes as 'Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account' should be tattooed on the left wrist of every grad student in the anglophone world. — David Foster Wallace

You trust a thief when you trust a woman. — Hesiod

I mean, I think everybody realizes that calling people racist is a waste of time; nobody buys it anymore. — Bernard Goldberg

Is this where we ask what he wondered?" Sanders drawled. "Because I'd just as soon let him wander around on that horse and talk to himself. — K.F. Breene

Happiness we can only find in ourselves, it is a waste of time to seek for it from others, few have any to spare. Sorrow we have to bear alone as best we can, it is not fair to try to shift it on others, be they men or women. We have to fight our own battles and strike as hard as we can, born fighters as we are. — Axel Munthe

It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners. — James Wolcott