Term Quotes · Page 53

I want to end my career on my terms, not on what people think I should do.

— Pete Sampras

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

— Joni Mitchell

Focus on your customers and make that restaurant synonymous to where you are in terms of area.

— Gordon Ramsay

Be indifferent if you lose your short term clients, remember they are your own worst enemy

— Seth Klarman

In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.

— Norm MacDonald

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

— Bonnie Raitt

I don't worry about long-term history. I won't be around to read it.

— George W. Bush

The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.

— Don DeLillo

The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are…

— Gustav Stresemann

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

— Anonymous

Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This…

— Terence McKenna

My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation:…

— Kofi Annan

The way football is being played currently, that I have seen, it's dangerous. It's dangerous and it could impact their long-term mental…

— Ann McKee

I'm someone who can create critiques of individuals based on their economic history. That's one way I look at people in terms…

— Ira Sachs

Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the…

— Murray Gell-Mann

By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.

— Newt Gingrich

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in…

— Thom Mayne

In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny…

— Anna Paquin

I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a…

— Nick Antosca

I think the establishment donor class has begun to crumble. They're searching for [Marco] Rubio, trying to get some momentum there. But…

— Ted Cruz

I feel like I've given up a lot of my fantasies. I just want to do things differently, and to a lot…

— Julian Casablancas

In any piece of rhetorical discourse, one rhetorical term overcomes another rhetorical term only by being nearer to the term which stands…

— Richard M. Weaver

Even our concepts about romantic love, I think, are destructive; treating people as property is destructive; being jealous of other people is…

— Jeff Mangum

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions…

— Herbert Marcuse

We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity.…

— Anonymous

The media we surround ourselves with allows us to manufacture our own experience every day, which is a perception of the world…

— Rick Alverson

For all great innovations, someone took a risk. They risked capital; they risked their energy; they risked their opportunity cost; and more…

— Dov Seidman

When the environment makes gender salient, there is a ripple effect on the mind. We start to think of ourselves in terms…

— Cordelia Fine

The gift our enemy may be able to bring us: to see aspects of ourselves that we cannot discover any other way…

— Walter Wink

Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes,…

— Anthony Giddens

It is increasingly obvious that environmentally sustainable solutions to world hunger can only emerge as people eat more plant foods and fewer…

— John Robbins

I work with nature, although in completely new terms.

— Bridget Riley

The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.

— Wayne Thiebaud

But the fallout from this coronavirus long term is going to be severe and lengthy.

— Laura Kelly

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

— Mary Ruefle

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

— Ayn Rand

Shouldn't the long-term goal of any society be complete unemployment?

— Doug Stanhope

Of course, I'm sour that if (retirement) happens, I didn't get to quit on my own terms.

— Peter Forsberg

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

— Ilona Andrews