Term Quotes · Page 74

Pre-mature ejaculation. Let's talk about it. Premature ejaculation. That's a pretty fancy term for, "Ooooooh Oh no. This has never happened before."

— Dave Attell

In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party,…

— Natascha McElhone

The Communal Land Rights Bill then said, since there would be those collectives set up in terms of the other legislation, there…

— Thabo Mbeki

The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational…

— Karen Armstrong

For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I'm…

— Nick Bantock

Rural Americans want leaders who help middle-class communities to plan and prosper over the long-term - not opportunists who reap the rewards…

— Tom Vilsack

Berkshireis not as good as it was in terms of percentage compounding [going forward], but it's still a hell of a business.

— Charlie Munger

Monitoring activities is neither new or intrusive. We did that with communities in terms of getting rid of the mob. And cops,…

— Greg Gutfeld

Being captive to quarterly earnings isn't consistent with long-term value creation. This pressure and the short term focus of equity markets make…

— Charles Koch

We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political…

— Anthony Crosland

I don't really think of my narrator in terms of gender. I think of them much more in basic emotional terms. As…

— Steve Almond

Anger is a handy term and words are tricky, as we know. What one man perceives as anger, another person - in…

— George Carlin

Hillary Clinton is talking to all Americans. She's talking about jobs, she's talking about how to make this country stronger in terms…

— Donna Brazile

I feel like a lot of people are very career-driven and there's pressure to be successful. You put off relationships. You put…

— Mickey Sumner

I worry very much that we're in a situation now where there doesn't appear to be any limitation whatsoever in terms of…

— Dick Cheney

With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the…

— George Will

I came to nonfiction through journalism. My first book was journalism, and it was so frustrating to me, while I was writing…

— Lucas Mann

I am not sure just what Marx had in mind when he wrote that "philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in…

— Noam Chomsky

First of all, when you build a restaurant of that phenomenon-I really hate that word "set" and I hate the word "cast"…

— Gordon Ramsay

Our standard prescription for the know-nothing investor with a long-term time horizon is a no-load index fund. I think that works better…

— Charlie Munger

I honestly feel that most young women out there are feminists - they just don't know that the word "feminism" describes the…

— Julie Zeilinger

For some reason there's this myth that creativity - [especially] in terms of creative writing - is a gift you either have,…

— Sarah Kay

The only difference between causation and the value is that the word "cause" implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of "value"…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of…

— Frederick Lenz

The key in terms of mental ability is chess. There's never been a woman Grand Master chess player. Once you get one,…

— Pat Robertson

Before I really even understood what the term meant, I wanted to be wealthy. I wanted to be able to drive the…

— John Caudwell

When nonprofits, companies and consumers work together, we believe we can make long term, positive change for the millions of people in…

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers…

— Vaclav Klaus

The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.

— John Podhoretz

I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the…

— John W. Snow

For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come…

— Tea Obreht

Longer-term, I think the markets would rally under a [Donald] Trump plan and sell-off on a [Hillary] Clinton policy.

— Maria Bartiromo

I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure:…

— Natalie Portman

We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could…

— David Sedaris

But because human being tend to focus on short-term benefits and our own immediate needs, such tragedies of the commons occur frequently .

— Dan Ariely

I really lucked out in terms of how my parents encouraged me to develop my own personality so I didn't just feel…

— Winona Ryder

In terms of myself, I said from the very beginning that I wanted to work in the management of Citigroup and I…

— Robert Rubin

So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

— Ramin Bahrani

So multiverse or not, we still have to come to terms with the origin of the laws of nature. And the only…

— Antony Flew