Term Quotes

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

I knew the term Stepford Wife, and I knew what that meant. I never read the book, and I think before I started filming I watched the movie. I thought it was very dated.

I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me.

Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history.

In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.

Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you.

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.

If you have a problem where you have just poverty, long-term insurance benefits for an emergency aren't going to solve that either. You have got to fix the social safety net.

We all have restlessness in long-term relationships.

When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.

Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?

Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.

One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.

Nothing a housewife does is of value in capitalist terms because it does not take place on the market and therefore does not contribute to the Gross National Product.

I have said that I'm not running and I'm having a great time being pres — being a first-term senator.

I think we have to take a look at corporate law. We have to take a look at the incentives that we can perhaps use to encourage more longer term.

Midterms are always hard. And the midterm in a two-term president's second term is especially hard.

I was against it [Trans-Pacific Partnership] once , it was finally negotiated and the terms were laid out.

What is cooking? 'Cooking' is a loose term. It's understanding energy or the lack thereof.

It's clear that women athletics are pretty far behind in every way. In terms of facilities, how much we make, everything.

Boring' can be a lot of fun. Especially if it's on your own terms.

was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?

The word relationship best refers to the connection between parasite and host, or shark and remora. It's a biological term. I'd rather be a jerk than a scientist when it comes to love.

Screwy," I said. "Is that a medical term?" "Of course.

I prefer the term ‘sexual deviant’ myself,” Saiman said.

Putin is very much afraid of leaving. Because he is formally right now in his first term, so has another eight years from now. Legally, he has created all the mechanisms for himself. He's a lawyer.

Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.

How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?

I love Drake -- he is very talented and I like his effortless attitude in terms of his style and music.

To say someone is a producer... it's kind of a slippery term.

Coincidence is just the conformist term for fate.

In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.

Unfortunately, beer was only a short-term answer. And head transplants had yet to be approved by the FDA.

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

In terms of the short-term objective [halving world hunger by 2015], the position I have always taken is that we don't need genetically modified organisms.

Nature's not our enemy, it's our sustenance; and we need it - and we need nature healthy for us to be healthy and to survive long term

I don't really think in terms of competing with myself.

For me, hearing the term 'apply yourself' was like a crucifix to Bella Lugosi's Dracula. 'Ahhh, it burns!'

In a time when our nation is engaged in multiple, long-term wars, it's critical that "the military" not become an abstraction to the vast majority of Americans who are not participants.

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.

What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.

The term "too big to fail" must be excised from our vocabulary.

The term 'celebrity' makes my skin crawl.

As a designer you have to just do whatever you want to do. The second I came to terms with that, it transformed my work.

President Obama gave a big speech on climate change. He believes global warming is getting worse because apparently he's sweating a lot more during his second term

Our commitment to defence goes beyond this. It's a long-term commitment to make SA the home for Australian defence. It's a commitment to providing the right infrastructure and the right people.

We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.

Much as we might wish it, looks don't always last forever. That's why, if you're looking for a long-term relationship, it's extremely important to take into consideration qualities that will last.

For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention to the spirit, soul, and broader environmental issues.

If you're going to invest in an Internet stock, you must be a long-term investor.