All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
PoetrySlangMetaphor
Other dances are like languages, like French or Spanish, but my steps are slang, and slang is always changing.
Savion Glover
AlwaysStepsChangingSlangLike
I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s.
Beck
LovePeopleAmazingWayGoneSlang
The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.
Dennis Farina
WordsFunBritishSlang
I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.
Ben Schott
LanguageLovedAlwaysSlangFluidity
I really like language - and slang in particular, and just the shorthand we use when we communicate with people.
Brian Azzarello
PeopleLanguageSlangJustLikeUse
I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
J. B. Priestley
WordsThinkAmericanKnowTwoSlang
The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
Anthony Burgess
GreatSlangCreators
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg
WorkLanguageHandsUpSlangGoes
I write in American slang.
Norman Spinrad
AmericanWriteSlangI Write
Spell-check ruins my work. It fixes all my slang and dialect into standard English. So I'm caught in a tangle of technology that feels very foreign to me.
Ntozake Shange
WorkTechnologyMeEnglishSlang
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