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Quotes About Term

I've got my bell rung, and when I first came in the league, the term wasn't 'concussion,' it was 'getting dinged' or 'had your bell rung.' So I had my bell rung a few times.
~ Shannon Sharpe
Go to sleep and have really dirty dreams." "I think the term you're looking for is sweet dreams." "No. Those are boring. Dirty ones are much better.
~ Sarah Morgan
If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.
~ Paul Fussell
Duden Dictionary Meaning #4. Wort - Word: A meaningful unit of language / a promise / a short remark, statement, or conversation. Related words: term, name, expession.
~ Markus Zusak
It's an opaque term, intensive care. Specialists in the field prefer to call what they do critical care, but that still doesn't exactly clarify matters.
~ Atul Gawande
studies course, so they can take me for the beginning of the next term." "What about Thomas?" "There's a nursery on campus. We
~ Jojo Moyes
Do I think you're a sucker for her? I'd term it emotionally susceptible and yeah, you sure are.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
except sociopaths trying to sell me term insurance, home security, and lawn care.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
a cynic is only a term used by an idealist to describe a realist.
~ Jonathan Lynn & Anthony Jay
I think buddy is man talk for sweetie .
~ Emma Donoghue
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEETING AT 3 PM IN SCIENCE LAB 409 ON: THE TOTAL EXPERIENCE OF THE PUPIL: SHOULD MACBETH BE TAUGHT IN THE 6th TERM INSTEAD OF THE 5th?
~ Bel Kaufman
Zap,' I said. 'That's the technical term for it, is it? What do you call someone who's been zapped?' 'Mr. Crispy,' said Kumar.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
White House officials had made no firm commitment but said I would receive strong consideration if I wanted a new term.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
The truth is that your opponent, who labels you a racist without evidence, is the actual racist: it is he who waters down the term racism until it is meaningless by labeling any argument with which he disagrees racist.
~ Ben Shapiro
We need to give the prime minister of the day a chance. If he or she cannot win an election, so be it. But no prime minister can push through the reforms we need if they cannot even finish a term in office.
~ Frank Lowy
Neoconservatism is not what people think it is. It is not a party or a group. Many people popularly seen as neocons - Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld - are no such thing. Most neoconservatives reject the term. And those who accept it generally don't know each other and certainly don't act as the cabal that conspiracy-lovers imagine.
~ Douglas Murray
The term 'doctor' has been so abused lately! I didn't live in a hospital for 10 years so that term could be bastardized.
~ Drew Pinsky
New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.
~ Sarah Palin
My grandma used to call my mother 'Tuppence' as a term of affection, but she was worried when my parents actually put it on my birth certificate. She thought I might get bullied.
~ Tuppence Middleton
What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.
~ Maxim Gorky
In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes left by President George W. Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan.
~ Kevin O'Leary
I don't believe in the term 'guilty pleasure,' because it implies I should feel ashamed for liking something. A real guilty pleasure would be, I don't know, taking gratification in some stranger's ghastly death or something - which I guess I do enjoy, because I read a ton of true crime.
~ Bill Hader
Not long ago, the term 'business model' was not exactly on the tip of everyone's tongue. Then, in the early to mid-1990s, 'business model' became a catchphrase that described how a company makes money or saves money.
~ Marc Ostrofsky
In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private and, on top of that, exclusive. Likewise, general-aviation airports in the U.S. are for everyone but the general public.
~ Tom Wolfe