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Quotes About Term

By purchasing and holding large amounts of Treasury securities and MBS, we put additional downward pressure on term premiums and so on long-term rates.
~ Jerome Powell
The term specified complexity is, therefore, a synonym for specified information or information content. (See Fig. 4.8.)
~ Stephen C. Meyer
The consensus was that I was an elitist, which is a right-wing term for someone smarter than you.
~ Steve Almond
Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
~ Steve Martin
Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
~ Steve Martin
The SPLC calls so many people racist they have watered down the term.
~ Kris Kobach
You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music, the music people have always made.
~ Frank Fairfield
You keep using that term, 'the enemy.' But you taught me that euphemisms are only for those who feel guilt about what they are describing.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
The innards of Ping's G5 were supposedly computer-engineered with a process called "finite-element analysis," a term that for all I know was stolen from an old Star Trek episode.
~ Carl Hiaasen
You know zat another term for an iconographer would be 'photographer'? From the old word 'photus' in Latation, vhich means—" "'To prance around like an idiot ordering everyone about as if you owned the place,'" said William. "Ah, you know it!
~ Terry Pratchett
Aaranya Kaandam' is a term from the Ramayana. It means Jungle Chapter but apart from the term, I haven't borrowed anything else. The characters are as good or as bad as the common man.
~ Thiagarajan Kumararaja
And how I hated that term, politically incorrect, hated the shield it gave racists who got to label themselves politically incorrect, instead of admitting what they really were. Even to themselves.
~ Gardner Dozois
Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
~ Brian Eno
Some scholars have used the term monolatry of this view rather than monotheism, because monotheism excludes the existence of any other gods, while monolatry allows for the existence of other gods, but demands the worship of one God who is essentially different from all other gods.[21]
~ Brian Godawa
The very term "skid row" comes from Seattle's skid road, a logging skid at the center of a large liquor and prostitution industry.)
~ Bruce Barcott
So until babies are closer to term and stuff comes up into the pharynx, their response may be to simply hold their breath, resulting in apnea and sometimes slowing of their heart rate. As one of the more frightening complications of reflux in infancy, this typically warrants treatment and close cardiopulmonary monitoring.
~ Bryan Vartabedian
My opinion is that the term "God" belongs to the realm of concepts, that it is dependent upon man for its existence. If God does not exist unless man exists, then man must be here to produce God. It
~ Huey P. Newton
It's not a loup cage, you know,' I told her. 'It's a holding cell. Or safe room. or secure room. I don't think Jim ever settled on a term he could live with.' 'Aha. It's a loup cage.' Andrea cleared her throat. 'I touched it with my finger and it hurt. Is that in case of marital problems?
~ Ilona Andrews
'Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.
~ Dallas Willard
I have no idea who coined the term 'the New Journalism,' or when it was coined. I have never even liked the term. Any movement, group, party, program, philosophy or theory that goes under a name with 'new' in it is just begging for trouble, of course.
~ Tom Wolfe
I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.
~ Marjane Satrapi
I think people loosely use the term 'free speech.' If the market wants to be such that people don't want to watch someone, so be it.
~ Greta Van Susteren
Nintendo, a term meaning "leave luck to heaven."!
~ Steven L. Kent
The term 'Sock it to me!' was a big, big thing in our neighborhood - all the kids were saying it.
~ Aretha Franklin