Term Quotes

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

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

I think short-term goals are important. Trying to set a missive for yourself for the entire year can be daunting, and it can feel too easy to fail or fall short of that.

One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.

I never wanted to have a profession, and I've succeeded in not having one, or if I did have one it never paid, or it's never been especially long-term.

There's no medical term for what I've got.

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.

You can't write a term paper before breakfast.

If I was a Marxist I'd call it the crisis of capitalism. Even though I'm not a Marxist, that seems like a not unreasonable term for the widening gap between the rich and poor that we're seeing.

I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage).

Rock bottom; that's a fishing term.

Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague Latin terms as intercourse and cohabitation.

Another culture can be learned in the classroom for a single term, but it can be felt from a person for a lifetime.

I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.

People evaluate you in terms of how you handle things going forward.

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

I think that under ordinary circumstances (i.e., neither person is famous), it's already hard enough to make a long-term romantic relationship work, but add fame to the calculus.

There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.

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

My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.

I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it.

We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.

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.

Donald Trump said that if President Obama releases his birth certificate, Trump will release his tax return. Obama said he won't run for a second term if Trump releases that thing on his head.

Today Secretary of State John Kerry visited the small African nation of Djibouti. Or to use the official diplomatic term, he made a Djibouti call.

I'm a terrible long-term planner.

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.

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

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

Any climate scientist will tell you that an unusually warm month - or even a whole warm winter - doesn't mean much. It's the long-term trend that counts.

When you're 'recruiting' people in temporary positions for the firm (short-term contracts, free-lancers, etc.) treat them well: remember, they're the only ones who actually do any work.

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

I can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process.

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

All politicians know that every 'temporary' political initiative promised as a short-term poultice stays on the books forever.

Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.

I feel they should be discussed informally, truthfully, honestly, and in some cases, I think, without forgetting ... long-term vision. They should be practical.

Can a president who’s presided over, and possibly encouraged, Chinese-style surveillance of The Land of the Free honestly expect to serve out his full term?

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

I think improvisation is really crucial in terms of making things feel real and authentic.

In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.

In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a Social Security pension.

Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.

Every time you come in from cheating on someone, they'll just whip out the most adorable term of endearment. Like, they'll wake up, bright and early, sleep in their eyes and say: "Hey, perfect."

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.

In the long term, Israel's security rests on only one pillar: the Palestinians' acceptance of the country. It isn't the atom bomb that makes Israel secure.

When a language advances and adds a third term to its lexicon for color, the third term is always red.

Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build?