Coined Quotes
59 quotes by 55 authors
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Whoever coined the term "Buyer Beware" was probably bleeding from the asshole.
— George Carlin
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There is a newly coined word in the English language for the moment when the person we're with whips out their BlackBerry or answers that…
— Daniel Goleman
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I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically.
— George W. Bush
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I remember the day we were hanging around the band's commune and Roger came in with the press kit for a rock band (Moby Grape)…
— Cynthia Heimel
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Iain Dowie famously coined the phrase 'bouncebackability' to describe Crystal Palace's ability to come from behind. But this is a typical manager's idea, so optimistic.…
— Daniel Finkelstein
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German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
— Ludwig von Mises
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The beat generation (coined in Playboy)
— Jack Kerouac
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The term Hispanic, coined by technomarketing experts and by the designers of political campaigns, homogenizes our cultural diversity (Chicanos, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans become indistinguishable),…
— Guillermo Gomez-Pena
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It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek oikos, "referring originally…
— Warwick Fox
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Even in Madison's day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried…
— Jeffrey Toobin
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Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.
— Jeannette Walls
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And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other…
— James Joyce
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
— Abdolkarim Soroush
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A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of this…
— Medard Boss
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The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek - topo for place and cosmos for…
— Dolores LaChapelle
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I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without a…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of…
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
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A man coined to superlative must expect that his every statement will be taken with some caution
— Claude C. Hopkins
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In countries around the world, waistlines are expanding so rapidly that health experts recently coined a term for the epidemic: globesity.
— Laurie Cunningham
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