All Quotes

The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.
‐‐ Helen Rowland

The tenet of the separation of church and state is an unconstitutional doctrine.
‐‐ Sharron Angle

The tennis ball doesn't know how old I am. The ball doesn't know if I'm a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers.
‐‐ Martina Navratilova

The tennis calendar is incredibly long, so it's normal to go through ups and downs, and you want to keep the ups as long as possible and the downs as short as possible. You have to be realistic with what you're doing.
‐‐ Kyle Edmund

The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.
‐‐ Steffi Graf

The tenor of the comments as we got closer and closer to August got dominated by 'Wouldja please get this over with' and not let us go into default.
‐‐ Nan Hayworth

The tenor voice should be like sunshine.
‐‐ Marcello Giordani

The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.
‐‐ Arthur Levitt

The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.
‐‐ Radhanath Swami

The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
‐‐ Anatole Broyard

The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment.
‐‐ Annette Bening

The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.
‐‐ Ann Macbeth

The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
‐‐ Ralph Fiennes

The tenth amendment said the federal government is supposed to only have powers that were explicitly given in the Constitution. I think the federal government's gone way beyond that. The Constitution never said that you could have a Federal Reserve that would have $2.8 trillion in assets. We've gotten out of control.
‐‐ David Malpass

The tenuousness of modern life can make anyone feel overwrought.
‐‐ Robin Marantz Henig

The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions.
‐‐ Frans de Waal

The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a cocoon.
‐‐ Tessa Thompson

The term 'celebrity' makes my skin crawl.
‐‐ Janeane Garofalo

The term 'celebrity memoir' has gotten such a bad name now, but there used to be a little bit of an art form to it.
‐‐ Rob Lowe

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
‐‐ Leonard Cohen

The term 'Consulting Producer' is extraordinarily nebulous in TV, and it really means something different depending on the show and the specific circumstances negotiated.
‐‐ Marc Guggenheim

The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.
‐‐ Charles Vest

The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies.
‐‐ Ethan Zuckerman

The term 'demilitarized Palestinian state' is an oxymoron.
‐‐ Naftali Bennett

The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When an epitaph is a poem written for a tomb, and appears in a book, we are aware that we are not reading it in its proper form: we are reading a reproduction. The original of the epitaph is the tomb itself, with its words cut into the stone.
‐‐ James Fenton

The term 'geek' for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don't care if people think it's not cool. You think it's cool and that's your thing.
‐‐ Dominic Monaghan

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.
‐‐ Christopher Nolan

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.
‐‐ Martin Scorsese

The term 'glass ceiling' was coined in 1984. More than 20 years later, the ceiling has barely cracked. There isn't a single country in the world that has as many female as male politicians. In business, the situation is even worse. Its highest echelon - the board - remains a chauvinist's dream.
‐‐ Noreena Hertz

The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.
‐‐ Irena Sendler

The term 'meritocracy' was coined by socialist theoretician Michael Young, who crafted the party's 1945 election manifesto.
‐‐ Terry Glavin

The term 'natural resources' confuses people. 'Natural resources' are not like a finite number of gifts under the Christmas tree. Nature is given, but resources are created.
‐‐ Alex Tabarrok

The term 'overachiever' sort of makes it look like the person has mediocre talent and he just works so hard that he achieves beyond what you would think. 'Overachiever' is sort of a - it's sort of an incorrect term. An overachiever is someone that's just willing to pay the price to get so much more out of his performance.
‐‐ Rick Pitino

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.
‐‐ David Leavitt

The term papers make me more crazy, because they involve more variables I cannot directly control! With acting, I feel more power-like I'm making all the choices.
‐‐ Fred Savage

The term 'pashmina' is often used interchangeably with 'cashmere,' but in reality, pashmina is a specific type of very fine, lofty cashmere, woven from a specific type of goat - one indigenous to northern India, Nepal, and Pakistan, and harvested and woven there as well.
‐‐ Hanya Yanagihara

The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man.
‐‐ Moby

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'
‐‐ Johnny Depp

The term 'steampunk' itself, now a badge of honor, began as a putdown, a joke. But like 'Big Bang' in cosmology, the diss became the standard.
‐‐ Paul Di Filippo

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

The term 'too big to fail' must be excised from our vocabulary.
‐‐ Jamie Dimon

The term 'triage' normally means deciding who gets attention first.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

The term 'Xiaokang' is used today to refer to a society where people can receive education, get paid through work, have access to medical services and old-age support, have a shelter and more than enough food and clothing, and lead a well-off life.
‐‐ Li Keqiang

The terms of copyright last far too long: either the life of the author plus 70 years after death for a personal work or 95 years for a corporate work. That length doesn't encourage more authorship - it merely limits the speakers who could share powerful speeches, books, and films.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our experience of it, enabling us to describe what we're reading, to feel and think with greater precision.
‐‐ Edward Hirsch

The terrible, diabolic thing with this disease is that you are always looking behind your shoulder every couple months with the most recent checkup to see whether there is any sign of it, and I thank God to say at this point there is not.
‐‐ Joe Eszterhas

The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation.
‐‐ Peter Coyote

The terrible thing about sunlight is it shows the dirt.
‐‐ Brigid Berlin

The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
‐‐ Terry Waite