Term famous quotes

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
-- Abdus Salam

#Men #Term #Complexity

I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Christian #Lying #Term

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
-- Alain de Botton

#Insomnia #Glamorous #Term

I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
-- Alan Kay

#Mind #Programming #Term

It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships,
-- Alan Kay

#Long #Term #Long Term

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
-- Alan Watts

#Trying #World #Term

I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music.
-- Albert Einstein

#Joy #Daydreaming #Term

The term ‘quadrilateral’ does not occur in the Wesley corpus – and more than once, I have regretted having coined it for contemporary use, since it has been so widely misconstrued
-- Albert Outler

#Doe #Use #Term

To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Irrelevance #Psychology #Term

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.
-- Aldrich Ames

#Cia #Term #Deals

Im never looking at life in terms of legacy.
-- Andrew Forrest

#Legacy #Term

Hopefully one day I can be up there with Peyton in terms of history.
-- Andrew Luck

#Nfl #One Day #Term

Everything is always going through changes in terms of attitudes or mood.
-- Andrew W.K.

#Attitude #Mood #Term

I don't really like horror shows, horror movies, or any of that. I'm really a lightweight, in terms of that.
-- Angela Bassett

#Horror #Term #Shows

I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.
-- Anita Baker

#Fun #Stress #Term

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.
-- Ann Macbeth

#Art #Film #Term

The worst thing that you can do in terms of bringing a product up to the market is to be two days after someone else has brought a similar product to the international market-It's dead.
-- Ann Macbeth

#Two #Worst #Term

I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Long #Term #Materials

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms
-- Aristotle

#Disputes #Term #Paragraph

There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#Eye #Essentials #Term

I don't live on other people's terms.
-- Azealia Banks

#People #Term

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
-- Barbara Kruger

#Political #Sound #Term

There is no such things as "Islamic terrorism," because terrorism differs from Islam. There's just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term "Islamic terrorism" has become widespread.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Islamic #Terrorism #Term

Term insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.
-- Ben Feldman

#Problem #Term #Temporary

We wanted peace and we wanted to come to terms with the Israelis.
-- Benjamin Netanyahu

#Term #Wanted

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.
-- Benjamin Tucker

#Offensive #Murder #Term

In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.
-- Bill Bryson

#Useless #Adaptability #Term

Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
-- Bill Crawford

#Define Yourself #Term

The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine.
-- Billy Bob Thornton

#Term #Movie Business

Describe your product in terms of what it does not in terms of what it is.
-- Brian Tracy

#Doe #Term

Define your goals in terms of the activities necessary to achieve them, and concentrate on those activities.
-- Brian Tracy

#Goal #Achieve #Term

Offer your customers a long-term relationship, then do everything possible to build and maintain it.
-- Brian Tracy

#Educational #Long #Term

I work with nature, although in completely new terms.
-- Bridget Riley

#Term

To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.
-- Bruce Lee

#Real #Quality #Term

I never had a long-term plan.
-- Bryan Adams

#Long #Term #Plans

Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.
-- Buzz Aldrin

#Employment #Actors #Term

The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction.
-- C. H. Dodd

#Individual #Destruction #Term

Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Forgiving #Mercy #Term

The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.
-- Camille Paglia

#Males #Femme #Term

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.
-- Caroline Kennedy

#Falling In Love #Husband #Term

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.
-- Cathy Freeman

#May #Way #Term

I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Long #Enough #Term

The word heretic ought to be a term of honour...
-- Charles Bradlaugh

#Doubt #Atheism #Term

As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.
-- Charles Cumming

#Complicated #Term

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's.
-- Charles Ives

#Expression #Matter #Term

I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.
-- Charles James Fox

#War #Term #Hardest

Over against any cognition, there is an unknown but knowable reality; but over against all possible cognition, there is only the self-contradictory. In short, cognizability (in its widest sense) and being are not merely metaphysically the same, but are synonymous terms.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce

#Reality #Term

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
-- Charles Schumer

#Party #Democrat #Term

Rock bottom; that's a fishing term.
-- Charlie Sheen

#Rocks #Fishing #Term

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Events #Tragic #Term

The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.
-- Childe Hassam

#Art #Acceptance #Term

It's more egalitarian on the Internet - anyone can put anything up. But in terms of the money it takes to allow a band to get good, there's less of it to invest.
-- Chris Martin

#Band #Internet #Term

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.
-- Christopher Nolan

#Firsts #Genre #Term

I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.
-- Chuck D

#Stuff #Term

I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.
-- Cindy Gallop

#Feminist #Goes On #Term

Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.
-- Clifford D. Simak

#Imagine #Term #Imaginary

We're not going to negotiate about the terms of terrorism. You don't negotiate about terrorism. It's is wrong to engage in terrorism, and there isn't anything to negotiate.
-- Condoleezza Rice

#Terrorism #Term

For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world.
-- Conrad Black

#America #World #Term

Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.
-- Conrad Black

#Country #Successful #Term

I hadn't the personality to be a long-term Success.
-- Cornelia Parker

#Long #Personality #Term

Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance
-- Cullen Hightower

#Easy #Term

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.
-- Cy Coleman

#Musician #Term

Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.
-- Cynthia Heimel

#Female #Pedestal #Term

I've only been in long-term relationships. I've never really dated myself.
-- Dakota Johnson

#Long #Long Term Relationship #Term

Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have to abandon outdated notions of 'them' and 'us' and think of our world much more in terms of a great 'US', a greater human family.
-- Dalai Lama

#Thinking #Our World #Term

Talk in terms of the other person's interests.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Interest #Term #Persons

I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.
-- Dalton McGuinty

#Arguing #Term

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
-- Damien Hirst

#Goal #Term #Measure Of Success

I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.
-- Damien Hirst

#Media #Stuff #Term

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
-- Damien Hirst

#Immortality #Term

If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. Theyre very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you.
-- Dane Cook

#Mean #Want #Term

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
-- Daniel De Leon

#Socialism #Force #Term

See, my strumpf is in my hair. Now, I don't know what strumpf means. It's just a term some brothas gave me.
-- Danny Masterson

#Mean #Hair #Term

Broke is a Hollywood term!
-- David Geffen

#Hollywood #Broke #Term

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.
-- David Icke

#Good And Bad #Situation #Term

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.
-- David Levithan

#Lonely #Drifters #Term

And I, who have never thought in terms of a life, think to myself that I could make a life out of this.
-- David Levithan

#Thinking #Term

Every ad is an investment in the long-term image of a brand.
-- David Ogilvy

#Long #Investment #Term

Another term for balloon is bad breath holder.
-- Demetri Martin

#Balloons #Term

The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running.
-- Dennis Banks

#Running #Different #Term

Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.
-- Dennis Cooper

#Condescending #Term #Cult

I don't ever use my name for anything in terms of getting the music heard.
-- Dhani Harrison

#Names #Use #Term

I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.
-- Diane Lane

#Long #Kind #Term

If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.
-- Djimon Hounsou

#Fashion #Campaigns #Term

In these early games you're focused on your performance. Just coming out and playing hard. There's not a lot you can do in terms of preparing and in terms of scouting.
-- Dom Starsia

#Games #Coming Out #Term

In terms of existing, everything is equal.
-- Donald Judd

#Equal #Term

If you want freedom you have to come to terms with being okay in the now doing nothing.
-- Doug Duncan

#Want #Doing Nothing #Term

You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.
-- Douglas Wilder

#Moving #Public Service #Term

You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things.
-- Dougray Scott

#Growing Up #Understanding #Term

So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.
-- Duncan Sheik

#Song #Term

I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
-- E. L. James

#Bars #Storytelling #Term

If I lose, I lose. Ill do it on my terms.
-- Ed Rendell

#Term #Ill

I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.
-- Edie Sedgwick

#People #Situation #Term

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.
-- Erwin Schrodinger

#Fundamentals #Consciousness #Term

There's nothing as short as short-term debt.
-- Evan Esar

#Debt #Term #Short Term

The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.
-- Fanny Fern

#Old Fashioned #Term #Misused

The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
-- Fernand Leger

#Independent #Realistic #Term

I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.
-- Francois Hollande

#Long #Want #Term

DePaulo says that 'singlism' -- a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her -- is not just aimed at unmarried women.
-- Gail Collins

#Forgiving #Term #Prepared

I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.
-- Garry Shandling

#Beauty #Perfectionist #Term