Quotes About Term

The pathetic – ridiculous – attempts which people undertake to try to understand nature are typically termed philosophy. The results of such attempts are also considered philosophy

Archaic Hebrew ... no general agreement among scholars regarding this term.

There aren't any footprints to follow," said Septimus. "That's why I'm going last. To scruffle them." "To what?" asked Beetle and Jenna. "Technical term." "Scruffle--a technical term?

Minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

I think the problem with the term graphic novel is it sounds pompous, it sounds pretentious, whereas on the continent, they call it an album, which to me sounds, it's got more much of a connotation of a kind of a music single and an album collection.

I've spent so many years talking about lame ducks in the White House and Congress, and it's never occurred to me to find out what the heck it means. It turns out it's an old English hunting term - something about firing at a duck without quite killing it. In any case, the hobbled duck limps on, at a distinct disadvantage.

When people hear the term 'political prisoner,' especially on the Left, it becomes a kind of abstraction. Folks are aware of injustice, and they're aware that there are folks in prison who are in prison, you know, largely because of their activism.

The term neo-liberal does not have a good definition. It's mostly used when you are angry with somebody or dislike someone, you call them a neo-liberal. Because otherwise, there is no concrete definition to the term.

I don't really understand what 'Galacticos' is supposed to mean. It's a term I dislike. I like football, pure and simple, and that concept isn't part of football. It's something else entirely.

I loathed my first term boarding at Bryanston school in Dorset. I hated being away from home; I think I had my parents in tears every time I spoke to them. I regret being so spoilt because within two terms I loved it.

the term diabalein (to throw apart). If God is a great gathering force, then sin is a scattering power.

Nationalism' has become a much overused term, subject to far too many and often muddled definitions.

Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there is paradigm (opposition), there is meaning . . . elliptically put: meaning rests on conflict (the choice of one term against another), and all conflict is generative of meaning: to choose one and refuse the other is always a sacrifice made to meaning, to produce meaning, to offer it to be consumed.

Julia's brother Lewis, who remained in California, allowed them to use his house "Wish-ton-wish"—an Indian term meaning whip-poor-will—

The date here is very interesting, because, as far as I can determine, the first Star Trek episode to refer to a black hole, which it called a black star, was aired in 1967 before Wheeler ever used the term in public.

Your chimp ? Bennett asked with a half laugh. Despite what you might think, that is not a term of endearment for your girlfriend! Harry explained, raising his hands in a placating gesture. Even though she has monkey toes.

Although rarely given a clear definition, "extremism," in essence, is a term used to condemn those who hold unpopular values intransigently and in action refuse to compromise them; the nature of such action is not delimited by the concept.

en el que fue obligado acuñar el término nostalgia. La primera vez. Ahí, de verdad, el frágil vínculo entre lo real y las ideas tiene su mayor e irrecuperable momento de autenticidad.

Edinburgh dogs do not have owners–too prosaic a term–they have comptrollers.)

Unlearned language?" "There's a technical term for it," she said. "Xenoglossy. It's the ability to speak a language you've never learned. Some people appear to do so under hypnosis; they're put into a trance and they start talking as another personality. It's regression.

If I had to use a term other than UFO, I preferred another new term, UAV, which stood for Unidentified Aerial Vehicle.

Is there another word for synonym?

NONLONERS BORROW A term from Jung and call us introverts. They think it makes them sound intelligent to say so.

I remember no syllable of them now, but the other, more ancient lore which I acquired that term will be with me in one shape or another to my last hour. "I like this bad set and I like getting drunk at luncheon"; that was enough then. Is more needed now?