Lingo Quotes

#1. I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read.

Raymond Chandler

#2. The lingo used in the space is so arcane and out of date that investors have no context for the discussions. The failure to establish a clear, effective communication system has been the biggest sin private equity has committed.

Bob Rice

#3. Cash or check?" he said cheekily. Even the dullest Ohio girls knew that bit of lingo: Kiss now or kiss later?
"Bank's closed, pal.

Libba Bray

#4. English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.

Richard Lederer

#5. Chase God's heart today. Christianity has got to be more than a label, a lingo, and a lifestyle.

Lysa TerKeurst

#6. But whenever the church fails to mediate God's counterintuitive delight in broken people, the pain of sin will only be magnified until it suffocates our souls. Good deeds and spiritual lingo can't heal a human heart suffocated by evil. Only grace can. Rich, embodied, earthy charis.

Preston Sprinkle

#7. He knows all the golf lingo. You know? You hit your ball, he's like "there's a golf shot. That's a golf shot." Well of course it's a golf shot; I just hit a golf ball. You don't see Gretzky skating around going "there's a hockey shot, that's a hockey shot."

Bill Engvall

#8. When I fell in love with hip-hop, my favorite rapper was Jay-Z. But I used to like Common and Nas. But I was a South dude. So I grew up on UGK, Triple Six, Outkast, and Pastor Troy. That's where I get my lingo, my slang, my passion.

Cyhi The Prynce

#9. I have an old soul. I don't know any real-life lingo, so I have to take it from movies.

Jennifer Lawrence

#10. I believe if you want to convey a complex philosophy, it's advisable to keep it simple: day-to-day lingo.

Amish Tripathi

#11. The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.

Saul Bellow

#12. Control thy lingo and mind thy demeanor in synonymy with the social etiquette,

Mukesh Kwatra

#13. I have always been "Hacky Wacky" which is my lingo for HAPPY! I refuse to allow my obesity to control me.

Ruby Gettinger

#14. I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have 'nookyular capabacity.

Robin Morgan

#15. From film to film, I realize my strengths and my weakness, and I realize how much better I get. I learn the lingo, I ask questions and I'm on set trying to figure out which shots they're going to use. For me, it's exploring the art. It's not just making a movie.

Naturi Naughton

#16. Tonight sucked" my dad said and I started to laugh hearing him say that. "What?" He smiled at me. "Isn't that the slang you kids are using? The lingo? Do I sound hip?"
I just shook my head. "The only hip I hear is the sound of yours breaking.

Robin Benway

#17. I've made my records and I've done all the interviews. I've done lots of long tours. I've made stupid videos. I've done all that stuff and learned all the lingo and gone to radio stations and shmoozed with DJs on the air and met retail people.

Frank Black

#18. The businessman turns out to have a lot of zanshin. Translating this concept into English is like translating "fuckface" into Nipponese, but it might translate into "emotional intensity" in football lingo.

Neal Stephenson

#19. Want to back out?" Jill let out a long breath. "No. I've always wanted a life of crime. Will you teach me gangster lingo? I want to be a credit to you.

Robert A. Heinlein

#20. I like it because when people use a lot of poker lingo, it usually means they've been playing the game for a while. Which is why I immediately avoid those people.

Elle Lothlorien

#21. It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.

Ruth Benedict

#22. Can you keep up with the lingo

Kevin Gates

#23. A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.

Charley Harper

#24. If I have a bunch of computer lingo that I have no idea what I'm speaking about, I really need to know what I'm talking about.

Chloe Bennet

#25. It was heartbreaking to see old Ossis trying to ape the thinking of Wessis, trying to master the lingo of capitalist self-promotion.

Jonathan Franzen

#26. I've never been - I don't think I'm, like, a great A&R, by any means. I don't even know production lingo, in all honesty.

Pusha T

#27. You sound like a young person. You are probably all hip to the lingo the kids use these days." "You and I are the same age, Mr. Tiberius.

T.J. Klune

#28. It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

Helen Reddy

#29. He gave her a goofy grin. "Not everyone can be hip to the lingo. Don't be a hater, Blair.

Denise Grover Swank

#30. He's more a shape in a drape than a hep cat

Sara Sheridan