Quotes About Buzzwords

#1. What kind of word is 'methodal'?" David asked. "A buzzword," Ashok answered, this time himself. "Methodal. Sounds like a drug." "That's what buzzwords are. Tranquilizers." "Thought suppressants, you mean.

Carolyn Ives Gilman

#2. I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.

William Gibson

#3. The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up

Ben Parr

#4. I feel it can be dangerous to explain whole cultures with buzzwords.

Haruki Murakami

#5. Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.

Michael Nesmith

#6. I've read way too much on the overused/misunderstood buzzwords "Show, don't tell!" that I'm convinced all novels should now be picture books

Michael Kroft

#7. Popular women use positive, optimistic language in their online profiles, not buzzwords like "future thinker". Here are the ten most often used words I found: easy-going, love, laugh, laid-back, optimistic, outgoing, fun, down-to-earth, pleasure, adventure.

Amy Webb

#8. I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.

Linus Torvalds

#9. The poet Lord Byron famously proclaimed that lobster salad and champagne were the only things a woman should ever be seen eating.

Tilar J. Mazzeo

#10. We as humans are the patterns of life. We are the roads we travel. Our lives make up the insignificance of a moment of the importance of a second. The choices we make are everything. I realize that, now that everything has changed and I'm a different person.

Megan Duke

#11. If you reach for something and find out it's the wrong thing, you change your program and move on.

Hazel Scott

#12. In 1950, the [Gallup organization] asked high school kids, are you a very important person? Then 12 percent said yes. Asked again in 2005, 80 percent said, yes, I'm a very important person.

David Brooks

#13. Reforming Social Security to make it fully funded and independently held, that's compassionate because it allows people to control their own lives; cutting taxes on families and all Americans to let people have more control over their lives.

Grover Norquist

#14. The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .

George Orwell