Quotes About Term

While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.

a divine emissary—a term so powerful that to another religious Judaean, it might as well be the same person wearing a different skin. An ambassador with divine implications.

Delicious was not a term applicable to anything below the crust of that volcano, whose heady vapors numbed his ravished senses.

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

I always and strictly tell Nintendo employees never to use the term 'success' to describe our own performance.

Our generation has been described as a golden generation. I hate that term.

'Fair' is, like, this incredibly overused term in negotiations: 'I just want what's fair.' 'What's the fair market price?'

I don't like to use 'gourmet' because it has become so overused and abused.

I believe that 'ego' is much overused term.

Feminism is just an overused term and people make too much noise about it for no reason.

How can smart and educated people make self-destructive leadership choices, political term after term, without learning the lessons from previous failures.

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.

'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture.

I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.

Actually, the term drove is misleading when applied to travelling across the prairies; a better verb might be pointed, which is all one has to do when moving in a straight line with about ten thousand feet between vehicles.

O-6, a Navy captain, right below a rear admiral lower half. That had been what his brother had meant by the term "salt." A captain in the Navy was of equal rank with a major in the Army, a senior officer.

I'll gladly identify myself if you'll first simply explain what it is I'm identifying myself as. This is my position. You're requiring me to attest to facts I do not possess. The term for this is "duress."

Terrorists, Dale? I recall before the war when it became politically incorrect to use that term when it came to real terrorists and ironically then applied to those who were not—and look at what it finally got us.

There is not such a word Spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

Cliff, I'd like to take over, but our charter prevents it. NSA can't engage in domestic monitoring, even if we're asked. That's prison term stuff.