Glossary Quotes

The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases - as in the nature of things it must be - that one would suppose politicians must sometimes strain their wits to coin them. (Albert Jay Nock)
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever. View quote
Ezra Pound
One thing that I get from a lot of people with 'American Gods' is people saying that they would love some kind of glossary with a list of all the Gods and who they are, so that they can look them up. View quote
Neil Gaiman
The publicly propagandized aims of communism are vaguely liberal. One can read the Daily Worker every day for a year without finding any clear exegesis of Communist principle. Like Hitler, Communists, outside their own ranks, promise all things to most men, denouncing only ‘monopolists' ‘imperialists' (and failing to provide a glossary for their meaning of these terms), opposing race discrimination, child labor, etc. View quote
Dorothy Thompson
The editorial, very poorly written for a college full of smart students, shows how far this "hate speech” cancer has spread. Let me provide for you Coyne's Glossary for the words at issue: :"free speech”: Speech that you like because it comports with your ideology :"hate speech”: Speech you don't like because it challenges your ideology :"Nazi”: Anyone uttering "hate speech” (see above) :"White supremacist”: See "Nazi” :"emotional labor”: Having to argue your case rationally-something to be avoided at all costs when you can simply call people names. View quote
Jerry Coyne
The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve. View quote
Charles Dickens
The working vocabulary of programmers everywhere is studded with words originated or forcefully promulgated by E. W. Dijkstra-display, deadly embrace, semaphore, go-to-less programming, structured programming. But his influence on programming is more pervasive than any glossary can possibly indicate. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra