Term Quotes

I think you need to explain what the term means and that it's a mean and derogatory term. And then you have to help your child to understand that it's the other child's problem who called them that name.

Alvin Francis Poussaint
- Problem
- Child
- Term
In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

Stephen Cole Kleene
- Family
- Farms
- Maine

Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature.

Albert Einstein
I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.

Henry Flynt
- Artist
- Translate
- Visuals
The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.

Edgar Allan Poe
- Word
- Expressing
- Verse
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
The most exhilarating for the writer and the reader, are gift-things-poems which arrive on their own energy, poems that in William Shakespeare's term "slip" from you.

Seamus Heaney
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