Technical Term For Quotes

#1. Did you see what happened?"
"Hard to miss," he said dryly. "Your boat went kaplooie."
Tally blinked at his easy dismissal of two lives and a million-dollar boat. "Is that the technical term for it?

Cherry Adair

#2. Some people are not just afraid of snakes, they're phobic. The technical term for a snake phobia is ophidiophobia, and people who have it dream of snakes, see snakes under every rock or rumple in the carpet, and freak out when they see snakes on TV.

James Patterson

#3. It was the kind of snow that didn't amount to anything on the ground. It would just dust the dead grass. The technical term for that level, he decided, was an "annoyance" of snow.

Cassandra Clare

#4. There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.

S.M. Stirling

#5. The chief characteristic of English grammar is the way words are arranged within sentences, and the technical term for this process is syntax. It

David Crystal

#6. Zap,' I said. 'That's the technical term for it, is it? What do you call someone who's been zapped?'

'Mr. Crispy,' said Kumar.

Ben Aaronovitch

#7. Many times drugs and alcohol - there's a technical term that they're called, emotional suppressants - are the only things that can help a person survive and get through and be able to deal with their pain.

Axl Rose

#8. The key to long-term survival and prosperity has a lot to do with the money management techniques incorporated into the technical system.

Ed Seykota

#9. It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.

Craig Bruce

#10. I just feel if you are an artist, you always have something to prove, if you are in music or in films, you have to prove that you can still do your best.

Sean Combs

#11. Needless to say, I thought it was a bat-shit crazy idea (that's the technical term). The last thing I wanted was to reprise my role as Livvie's captor. - Caleb

C.J. Roberts

#12. Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons A and B.

Gregory Bateson

#13. WAGs ... That's a technical term we engineers use. It means 'Wild-Assed Guess'.

David Weber

#14. I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths of the "new math" was the premature introduction of technical terms.

George Polya

#15. I was three years old. I was messing with my grandparents' dog in Las Vegas, and he decided to pick me up by my head and run around the backyard with me.

Brian Austin Green

#16. I find it difficult to fully enjoy musical theatre songs if I don't know the storyline of the show they are from as well as the context.

Christian Campbell

#17. When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.

P. J. O'Rourke

#18. In the technical realm, we repeatedly enter into a series of social contracts, the terms of which are revealed only after the signing.

Langdon Winner

#19. Leaders step up, even when they feel like hiding. And they do so because they care.

Michele Jennae

#20. People in love do not take breaks and lock themselves in alone to deal with the pain. They share it. More than ever, they want to be together to be able to face it.

Nikita Singh

#21. In case you're not a computer person, I should probably point out that 'Real Soon Now' is a technical term meaning 'sometime before the heat-death of the universe, maybe'.

Scott Fahlman

#22. I believe the technical term is "space cadet." But she is the kind of space cadet many people aspire to be. My sister is fully alive to each moment and each observation.

Susan Juby

#23. It's old. Really old.
Is that a technical term?
Yeah, it's technical. Translation: I don't know how old it is, but it's really fucking old.
Wow. That is old.

Alex Adams

#24. Cabal? His summoning name is Calab? Really?" Kody
"Don't, Nekoda. Just don't. I can wreck your day, too, you know?" Caleb
Yes, you can. Please don't. I've already forgotten I ever heard it." Kody
"Good woman." Caleb

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#25. If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.

Terry Eagleton

#26. Character actor' is a technical term denoting a clever stage performer who cannot act, and therefore makes an elaborate study of the disguises and stage tricks by which acting can be grotesquely simulated.

George Bernard Shaw

#27. I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.

Marilyn Hacker

#28. Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from turgid, pretentious, badly-written Bullsgeshichte, to use the technical German theological term.

Carl R. Trueman

#29. Prolonged inflation never 'stimulates' the economy. On the contrary, it unbalances, disrupts, and misdirects production and employment.

Henry Hazlitt

#30. That moment when you buy scissors and then you try to open them but you can't because you DON'T HAVE SCISSORS

Taylor Swift

#31. We have just witnessed a classic example of what I like to call 'misdirected rage'. I believe the technical term is being an ass.

Natsuki Takaya

#32. Whatever. So how is all this brilliant knowledge supposed to help me control the explody thing?" "Explody thing?" Jenny said. I nodded. "It's a technical term.

A&E Kirk

#33. International community - a technical term referring to the U.S. government and whoever goes along with it.

Noam Chomsky

#34. My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term.

Estelle Morris

#35. There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot'.

Larry Niven

#36. How does the living organism avoid decay? The obvious answer is: By eating, drinking, breathing and (in the case of plants) assimilating. The technical term is metabolism. The Greek word () means change or exchange. Exchange of what?

Erwin Schrodinger

#37. Wow," Jake said, his face going blank. "Assface. Is that a technical term? Maybe some kind of psychiatric diagnosis I'm not familiar with?

Lynn Red

#38. Meditate Silently. You will be able to create a totally new life for yourself.

Sri Chinmoy

#39. Organizational culture is just like the "Operation System" of the organization, you need reboot periodically to keep it running smoothly.

Pearl Zhu

#40. I shake my shoulders to get rid of all my feels. I hate these people. They're so annoying. Except I king of like Silas. Kind of.

Tarryn Fisher