Term Quotes

• The sanctions have nothing to do with our relations with China, because our relations with the People's Republic of China are at an unprecedented high both in terms of their level and substance. They are what we call "a comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation".

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Relation
  • Cooperation
  • Partnership

• My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves . . . In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we must re-define ourselves and our lives, in our own terms.

  

  Max Roach
  • Mind
  • Names
  • Term

• Our young men are going into the professional fields because they don't 'feel called' to the mission field. We don't need a call; we need a kick in the pants. We must begin thinking in terms of 'going out,' and stop our weeping because 'they won't come in.' Who wants to step into an igloo? The tombs themselves are not colder than the churches. May God send us forth.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Church

• The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater tolerance for ambiguity that science fosters. The new economy is predicated on a continuous pipeline of scientific and technological innovation. It can not exist without workers and consumers who are mathematically and scientifically literate.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Thinking
  • Science
  • Democracy

• Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Audience

• There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it's what you think. But it's hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Giving

• Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.

  

  Reed Hastings
  • Honest
  • Term
  • Optimistic

• I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men.

  

  Collier Schorr
  • Black
  • Emotional
  • Approach

• I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.

  

  William Labov
  • Practice
  • Successful
  • Social

• In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe as we move through a mildly good cocktail party, picking up the good bits of food or conversation, bearing with the rest, going home when it comes to seem the reasonable thing to do. Art, at those moments when it feels most like art -- when we feel most alive, most alert, most triumphant -- is less like a cocktail party than a tank full of sharks.

  

  John Gardner
  • Home
  • Party
  • Moving

• The thing I have to be willing to do is work - I think I'm the one that is going to actually copyright the term "25/8." You ever hear of the term "25/8?" It's the cousin of "24/7." I have to go "25/8."

  

  Guy Fieri
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Cousin

• Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Mean
  • Jokes
  • Print

• Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.

  

  William Hurt
  • Long
  • Study
  • Term

• The penalties for homosexual conduct were - would vary from state to state, but they were - it was a felony in most states punishable with prison terms of varying lengths.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • Prison
  • Homosexual
  • Penalties

• Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. They hadn't come here to fear. They hadn't come to die. They had come to win.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Sleep

• Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer . . . For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in Homer's gods; and I consider it a scientific error to believe otherwise. But in point of epistemological footing, the physical objects and the gods differ only in degree and not in kind. Both sorts of entities enter our conceptions only as cultural posits.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Believe
  • Kind
  • Situation

• I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable - when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • People
  • Long
  • Technology

• As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only they can understand - rendering the term 'mainstream' a hollow joke - while the true mainstream, the other 99.9% of the populace, find enjoyment elsewhere.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Book
  • Speak
  • Latin

• I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • Villain
  • Fairs

• The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and power chords.

  

  Colin Marston Behold... The Arctopus
  • Black
  • Satan
  • Extras

• Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

  

  William Vickrey
  • Mean
  • Evil
  • Welfare

• It's very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Important
  • Long
  • Energy

• In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Trust
  • Inevitable
  • Spite

• The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.

  

  Sergey Brin
  • Internet
  • Names
  • Google

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