Neologisms Quotes

#1. For example, a telegram is a "lightning-letter"; a wireless telegram is a "not-have-wire-lightning-communication"; a fountain-pen is a "self-flow-ink-water-brush"; a typewriter is a "strike-letter-machine". Most of these neologisms are similar in the modern languages of China and Japan.

Wolfram Eberhard

#2. When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy burden on the reader.

Alastair Reynolds

#3. In fact, these terms devised by Franklin are the ones we still use today, along with other neologisms that he coined to describe his findings: battery, charged, neutral, condense, and conductor.

Walter Isaacson

#4. I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.

Ben Schott

#5. They all agree, Italy is not what it used to be. What is? All my adult life I've heard how Silicon Valley used to be all orchards, how Atlanta used to be genteel, how publishing used to be run by gentlemen, how houses used to cost what a car costs now. All true, but what can you do but live now?

Frances Mayes

#6. In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months.

Jeff Dunham

#7. Dominic took the bait: If the President breaks the law, then the House of Representatives impeaches him and the Senate convicts him, and he's out on the street,

Tom Clancy

#8. I don't like to talk about messages so much with films simply because it's a little more didactic. The reason I'm a filmmaker is to tell stories and so you hope that they will have resonance for people and for the kind of things you're talking about.

Jonathan Nolan

#9. The law often allows what honor forbids.

Bernard-Joseph Saurin

#10. I try to go out for everything. I go out for any acting stuff that comes up, and voice-over stuff.

Andy Kindler

#11. Unless the chairman decides to sack me, I won't be quitting.

Carlton Palmer

#12. Just be prepared for a long and often uncertain journey. The good stuff doesn't come easy.

Tim Westergren

#13. Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.

Gregory S. Paul

#14. Love is a strawberry blonde liar, tease-baby, princess-girl torture.

Mary Elizabeth

#15. I visited blathernodes, soaked myself in other people's opinions.

Peter Watts

#16. The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

G. Gordon Liddy

#17. We often what to be a success but we don't know why.

Debasish Mridha

#18. I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

Willie Nelson

#19. So I went to George and told him I had the opportunity to become the figurehead of a government safety campaign, and he agreed to give me the week off and reschedule shooting!

David Prowse