Quotes About Term

If words could not be used ambiguously, if, in short, each word was an ideal term, language would be a diaphanous medium.

Galton recognized that in order to win people to his cause, he would need, as he put it, "a brief word to express the science of improving stock." In 1883, he came up with an enduring term: eugenics.

Two chicks. I mean, ladies... ah - women, girls, whatever the term is. I'll get it. I've got it marked down somewhere.

You could say 'lame duck' or you could use 'free agent.' I think they are both the same term.

T]here is no consensus in the psychiatric community that Dr. Lecter should be termed a man. He has long been regarded by his professional peers in psychiatry, many of whom fear his acid pen in the professional journals, as something entirely Other. For convenience, they term him "monster".

Somebody got up on the wrong side of the bed." Murray quipped, "She doesn't have a right side." "Hey, you know where that term came from?" Jules asked. Sophie smiled at the probie. "Where?" "Left-handed people used to be considered defective. So family members tried to break the habit. They'd push the lefty's bed to the wall and made him get up on the opposite side, causing the person to be cranky.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the first word you thought of.

los cristianos, también era un término semi técnico aplicable a los cristianos de Jerusalén. Eran los santos por excelencia.

The term bit (the contraction, by 40 bits, of "binary digit") was coined by statistician John W. Tukey shortly after he joined von Neumann's project in November of 1945.

Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein , he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life. But this 'blunder,' rejected by Einstein , is still sometimes used by cosmologists even today, and the cosmological constant denoted by the Greek letter ? rears its ugly head again and again and again.

The point is, teleportation is a difficult thing that takes a crap ton of mystic. Is 'crap ton' a technical term? Derek asked. Smartass. Yes, I growled.

popular outcry forced the return of The Lion, who ended his term by seeing a new constitution put into effect.

Patron is a writer in Hebrew; wanted to create a pun between the word for Zion and the word for penis. We couldn't find a term for penis, but the word copulate is mtsayen which helped her make her pun with tsion.

But Heraclitus' most significant contribution to the thought of subsequent authors of mystical philosophy was his establishment of the word, "Logos," as a term for the immanent presence of God in the world of man's experience.

Oh, Micheal darling!""Don't call me darling, I'm a driving instructor!

Did you see what happened? Hard to miss, he said dryly. Your boat went kaplooie. Tally blinked at his easy dismissal of two lives and a million-dollar boat. Is that the technical term for it?

I consider 'groupie' a sexist term, and I think it's misused.

I honestly feel the term 'molecular gastronomy' is mostly misunderstood. It is not a style of cooking. Rather, it is a philosophy which encourages chefs to be more creative.

If you have ever talked about having an "identity crisis" you have psychologist Erik Erikson to thank for inventing the term. Erikson

Never re-elect anybody

An aside: I learned that the correct term is "Maya" and not "Mayan," which apparently refers only to the language. The incorrect term is in such common usage, however, that people often don't know what I'm talking about if I use

The media's no more objective than the last ratings term.

Your stay in the camp was merely an allegory, if you know that word. It was an allegory--speaking at the highest level--of how scandalously, how outrageously a meaning can take up residence in a system without becoming a term in it.

Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.