Quotes About Argot

#1. In the argot of the cycle world the Harley is a "hog," and the outlaw bike is a "chopped hog.

Hunter S. Thompson

#2. Argot is nothing more nor less than a wardrobe in which language, having some bad deed to do, disguises itself. It puts on word-masks and metaphoric rags.

Victor Hugo

#3. Cutting through the acronyms and argot that littered the hearing testimony, the Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the CDA, interrupt that conversation.

Stewart Dalzell

#4. Argot is both a literary and a social phenomenon. What is argot, properly speaking? Argot is the language of misery.

Victor Hugo

#5. I dont care if youre Britney freakin Spears, nobody is going to steal my spotlight!

Trish Stratus

#6. You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone.

Nhat Hanh

#7. As an introvert, you crave intimate moments and deep connections--and those usually aren't found in a crowd.

Jenn Granneman

#8. The conscious mind - the self or soul - is a spin doctor, not the commander in chief.

Steven Pinker

#9. Golf is the only opportunity that middle-aged WASPs have to dress up like a pimp.

Kinky Friedman

#10. By thinking continuously your past or your future, you kill your today which is the only substantial part of your life!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image, and therefore an imaginary God, not the God of the Bible at all.

J.I. Packer

#12. Just as a primitive sextant functions on the illusion that the sun and stars rotate around the planet we are standing on, our senses give us the illusion of stability in the universe, and we accept it, because without that acceptance, nothing can be done. Virginia

Richard K. Morgan

#13. I'm not crazy; I'm curious.

Jennifer Donnelly

#14. Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's what I'll end up writing.

Peter Benchley