Unmeaning Jargon Quotes & Sayings

You know Chad's definition of the New Poor? People who are too far behind with time-payments on next year's model to make the down-payment on the one for the year after? — John Brunner

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off. — Lady Gaga

Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything possible. — Joseph C Zinker

The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die. — Simone De Beauvoir

I can't not put humor in a book. — Albert Brooks

Reporters don't know me, because I don't talk to them; I just talk to the players. — Moses Malone

The point I want to make about methanogens is that they were the losers in the race through a bottleneck, yet nonetheless survived in niche environments. Similarly, on a larger scale, it is rare for the loser to disappear completely, or for the latecomers never to gain at least a precarious foothold. The fact that flight had already evolved among birds did not preclude its later evolution in bats, which became the most numerous mammalian species. The evolution of plants did not lead to the disappearance of algae, or indeed the evolution of vascular plants to the disappearance of mosses. — Nick Lane

An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows ... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space. — Bill Bryson

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death. — David LaChapelle

Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay! — Jack Germond

Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart. — Miriam Makeba

I know exactly what Einstein meant when he said, "Dancers are the athletes of God." You three look like angels. I can't wait to see you dancing in the Christmas concert. — Kirsty Murray

I can't keep my fingers out of any pies. — David Bowie

Writing is also an art. — Marc Mullo