Parlance Quotes

#1. I don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the behind-the-scenes stuff and all of that. I can't help but feel like this reduces it a little bit.

Christian Bale

#2. I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

David Foster Wallace

#3. As awful as it had been, their exchange hung on in her mind as a model of what can happen, of what had almost never happened at any other point in her life: that two different people see each other and help each other, while carrying on being themselves. If

Sarah Tolmie

#4. E was 'nuts about her', as the parlance of the day had it, as if it were generally recognised that love and madness are adjoining rooms with extremely porous walls.

Jan Kjaerstad

#5. Night raids are only the first step in the American detention process in Afghanistan. Suspects are usually sent to one of a series of prisons on U.S. military bases around the country. There are officially nine such jails, called Field Detention Sites in military parlance.

Anand Gopal

#6. The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the 'eternal sentry.' The war ends, the landmine goes on killing.

Jody Williams

#7. In modern parlance we speak of the interconnectedness of all life, suggesting that one cannot really be healthy when the environment is sick.

Richard A. Young

#8. I don't know that it is possible to construct anything more atrociously hideous or uninteresting than a Base Camp. It consists, in military parlance, of nothing more than: -
Fields, grassless 1
Tents, bell 500

Bruce Bairnsfather

#9. In contemporary parlance, sex is biological and gender is socially constructed.

Rebecca Solnit

#10. I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, it's an evolved machine that we carry with us.

Bernard Beckett

#11. Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Eric Hoffer

#12. If you, however, separate reason and faith so that it's purely a rationalistic scheme, it will end in violence. If a pure faith scheme - sometimes called the fundamentalist scheme in modern parlance - you'll end in violence too.

Francis George

#13. Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

Theodore Roosevelt

#14. He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#15. Swapping Bergdahl for illegal enemy combatants (terrorists, in common parlance) signaled unmistakably to Taliban and al Qaeda that Obama is determined to withdraw from Afghanistan no matter what the cost to the United States or those in Afghanistan fighting to remain free.

John Bolton

#16. Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#17. If it be not destiny, then surely there is plausible deniability, which in the parlance of politics is the same thing.

Christopher Moore

#18. At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or Buddhism's Four Noble Truths but that they hold certain moral positions on bedroom issues such as premarital sex, homosexuality, and abortion.

Stephen Prothero

#19. When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister.

Scott Westerfeld

#20. The noose around a man's neck is tighter than that of his fists

Aaron Ozee

#21. Resist demonstrating that your worldliness was more fiction than fact," he whispered. "You, Lady Agatha, in the common parlance with which you are so fascinatingly familiar, 'ain't so tough.

Connie Brockway

#22. If you have time to watch TV, you have time to work on your dreams and change your life

Bruce Van Horn

#23. Ecstasy! In common parlance ecstasy is fun. But ecstasy is not fun. Your very soul is seized and shaken until it tingles. After all, who will choose to feel undiluted awe? The unknowing vulgar abuse the word; we must recapture its full and terrifying sense.

R. Gordon Wasson

#24. Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth.

John Henrik Clarke

#25. I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that.

Terence McKenna

#26. George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.

A.J.P. Taylor

#27. [The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan.

Joyce Meyer

#28. I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.

Ronald Reagan

#29. Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

Steve Prefontaine

#30. John 15 calls for us to be branches on Jesus as the vine. In common parlance, that simply means that if we hang with Jesus, fruit happens!

Ellsworth McMeen

#31. In the parlance of economics, Julien has said to Pari that if she cut off the supply of attention, perhaps the demands for it would cease as well.

Khaled Hosseini