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Tag Name "Slang" (38)

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Being a New Jersey native, going down to the shore for my whole life, it's a big thing that out of towners are very much looked down on and there is a real conflict between the locals and the Bennies - people that are out of towners, not from the shore. That's slang going back in the day.
Valerie Estelle Frankel
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The Dauthless have the wierdest slang. Pansycake, Nose...is there a term for The Candor? Of course.Uriah grins.Jerks
Veronica Roth
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I write in American slang.
Norman Spinrad
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They can bite, but cannot be us, They can come and pick up little slang but cannot see us, You ought to be ashamed trying to fit in my adidas, So Run like DMC like you don't know you got no heater
Andre Benjamin
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Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Ambrose Bierce
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READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in dialect and humor in slang.
Ambrose Bierce
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I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.
William Allen White
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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
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If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation marks. To do so is to put on airs, as though you were inviting the reader to join you in a select society of those who know better.
William Strunk, Jr.
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A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared an act of charity which he has performed domestic conflicts private affairs with his wife poorly prepared food he may have been offered or slang he may have heard.
Chanakya
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The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
Anthony Burgess
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In general, American slang is much better than English slang. The entire world picks up American slang.
Jesse Sheidlower
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The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth
Rudyard Kipling
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I want a girl with extensions in her hair, Bamboo earrings, at least two pair, A Fendi bag and a bad attitude, That's all I need to get me in a good mood. She can walk with a switch and talk with street slang, I love it when a woman ain't scared to do her thing.
LL Cool J
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Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.
Mark Twain
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My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.
Queen Latifah
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I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
J. B. Priestley
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When I fell in love with hip-hop, my favorite rapper was Jay-Z. But I used to like Common and Nas. But I was a South dude. So I grew up on UGK, Triple Six, Outkast, and Pastor Troy. That's where I get my lingo, my slang, my passion.
Cyhi the Prynce
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She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Try and write straight English never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.
Ernest Hemingway
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg
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Correct English is the slang of prigs.
George Eliot
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