Jargon Slang Quotes & Sayings

Another reason we know that language could not determine thought is that when a language isn't up to the conceptual demands of its speakers, they don't scratch their heads dumbfounded (at least not for long); they simply change the language. They stretch it with metaphors and metonyms, borrow words and phrases from other languages, or coin new slang and jargon. (When you think about it, how else could it be? If people had trouble thinking without language, where would their language have come from-a committee of Martians?) Unstoppable change is the great given in linguistics, which is not why linguists roll their eyes at common claims such as that German is the optimal language of science, that only French allows for truly logical expression, and that indigenous languages are not appropriate for the modern world. As Ray Harlow put it, it's like saying, Computers were not discussed in Old English; therefore computers cannot be discussed in Modern English. — Steven Pinker

I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be. — Corey Haim

I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it? — Yoko Ono

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes. — Billy Sunday

Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer. — John Bunyan

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking
a detour, an error. — Hermann Hesse

Dogs are lonesome creatures who needs a someone that will love him for eternity, Once they've found the one, He will protect it, believing that he is the only one who could accept him — Ammiel Josiah Monterde.