Quotes About Psychobabble

#1. It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.

Richard Rosen

#2. (about Dr. Po) Just another quack spouting psychobabble.

Eoin Colfer

#3. Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

Criss Jami

#4. The first thing any charlatan needs is nomenclature. A special language. Trappings. That's the true genesis of psychobabble terms such as 'disclosure' and 'in denial.' Every good con man needs plausibility ...

Andrew Vachss

#5. The U.N. is capable of endless process and mindless psychobabble, but as far as getting the job done on the ground, I just don't see them doing it.

Peter T. King

#6. The psycho-babble lavished on her by her mother in a prior life found her, whispering of trauma and coping, how this was not her fault and blaming herself at all was useless. She would eventually try to believe this, as soon as she was behind her locked bedroom door.

Thomm Quackenbush

#7. I'd love to be on a TV series someday, but I believe you get the jobs that you're meant to get. If the job that I'm meant to get is another musical or another play or film or TV show, I'm just happy to keep working.

Stark Sands

#8. Separate yourself from the technique; separate yourself from
yourself.

Masaaki Hatsumi

#9. I always liked doing all sorts of different things. As a kid growing up, I was always drawing and painting - always doing art. But I also loved movies and music, so as I started doing everything, I liked every aspect. It's not really that I am a control freak; it's just that is what I love.

Rob Zombie

#10. You never can tell what you can do till you try.

L.M. Montgomery

#11. For what I was to see at the abbey would make me think that it is often inquisitors who create heretics.

Umberto Eco

#12. A god who brings you good and bad in equal amounts doesn't ask for much, " she said. "Maybe a prayer or two. Maybe the odd sacrifice of a beast. But a god who promises only good times?" She shook her head and made the warding sign against evil. "A god like that will always want something from you.

John Flanagan

#13. I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.

Tammy Faye Bakker

#14. The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.

John Campbell Shairp