Quotes of: Termed Keyword

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

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Women on the whole are often not as shallow as men are. They can be, but they cut through things a little more easily than men do in terms of that superficial stuff.

Peter Dinklage

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

Wim Wenders

In the medium or long term we'll all be dead. Let's deal with the problems at hand.

Amado Boudou

Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.

Artur Davis

A place that measures change in terms of centuries is the saddest place to live in as far us you are a live.

Auliq Ice

In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.

Anthony Kiedis

More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.

Alva Myrdal

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

Alan Watts

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

Zac Goldsmith

I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it.

Tyra Banks

Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people.

Andrew Weil

I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla;' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it.

David S. Goyer

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

Madeleine M. Kunin

Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.

Gabriel Byrne

In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In Adrian's terms, I gave up on life, gave up on examining it, took it as it came. And so, for the first time, I began to...

The Sense of an Ending

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A Short History of Nearly Everything

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The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Philosophy is to the mind of the architect as eyesight to his steps. The Term 'genius' when applied to him simply means a man who understands what others only know about. A poet, artist or architect, necessarily 'understands' in this sense and is lik...

A Testament

I didn't plan on either children or writing. Once I realized that writing satisfied me in some enormous way, I had to make adjustments. The writing was always marginal in terms of time when the children were small. But it was major in terms of my hea...

Toni Morrison