Quotes About Neologism

#1. How outrageous could he get, in the realm of fatuous neologism, and still achieve praise?

Margaret Atwood

#2. I hate the neologism "owned" for "scored a victory over". I have no intention of owning anyone, and nobody will ever own me.

Richard Dawkins

#3. Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.

William Safire

#4. Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians consciously characterize their efforts. It is only intended to be positive - i.e., 'Our messaging is designed to show we care.'

John Podhoretz

#5. By nice women ... you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.

Nellie L. McClung

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

Peter Watts

#7. Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell.

Henry Ward Beecher

#8. In L.A., you work like hell because there is nothing else to do, unless you're cheating on your wife.

Howard Fast

#9. prayer is you talking to God and meditation is you sitting back quietly to listen for His response. So

Monica Marie Jones

#10. Is monstrous fuckpuddle,' Perun asserted, and everyone turned to stare at him with equal parts amusement and bemusement. 'What? Is this not English word?' I suggested that if it wasn't a word, it should be, and the others agreed.

Kevin Hearne

#11. Some people are like cats - if they're dropped upside down, they land on their feet. I get a little irritated about stories like that.

Peter Segal

#12. Six people were thinking of Rosemary Barton who had died nearly a year ago ...

Agatha Christie

#13. In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

Stieg Larsson

#14. Sophara scrawled orders on a slate and handed it to one of the libationarians, whose encyclopedic knowledge of the contents and locations of all the bottles kept the bar running.

Scott Lynch