Term Quotes
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Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,
Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection,
Figures pedantical--these summer flies
Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.
William Shakespeare
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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
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I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
William Shakespeare
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True Detective is an intense show, even in terms of the dialogue - there's a little rhythm to it, in particular in his monologues. I think on those days, he Woody Harrelson really had to stay in the zone. Because there's a certain cadence in which that character speaks and talks about life, you know? But then there are other days that he was able to be a little more loose.
Michelle Monaghan
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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
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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
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I believe that the presidential term should be limited.
Vladimir Putin
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I preserve things that are significant to me. Only time will determine what is important in the long term. But something can be rediscovered only if someone has collected and preserved it.
Michael Feinstein
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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
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I dont really ever compare myself to other people, I dont even measure myself in terms of anyone but myself.
Lady Gaga
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Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.
Kevin Spacey
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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