Terminological Inexactitude Quotes & Sayings

No,' she said. 'No, I don't reckon that's what I do now. Are you watchin', Mrs Gogol? Are you watchin' real close?'
Her gaze travelled the room and rested for just a fraction of a second on Magrat.
Then she reached over, carefully, and thrust her arm up to the elbow into the burning torch.
And the doll in Erzulie Gogol's hands burst into flame.
It went on blazing even after the witch had screamed and dropped it on to the floor. It went on burning until Nanny Ogg ambled over with a jug of fruit juice from the buffet, whistling between her teeth, and put it out.
Granny withdrew her hand. It was unscathed. — Terry Pratchett

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness. — Shirley Hazzard

The Secret of living is giving — Tony Robbins

Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy. — Wolfgang Puck

Any fighter knows that regret that doesn't inform your future is wasted emotion. If you lose and dwell on the missed opportunity rather than the chances to come, you're finished. — Craig Lancaster

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. — Alexander Haig

Nobody considers a covers record an album. — Cat Power

I know you may not believe it, but the last thing I want to do is hurt you or do anything that would make you regret that we've met.
- Jeremy — Nicholas Sparks

The stars shone through the leafless jasmine branches. Behind them they heard the river flowing, and now and again on the bank the rustling of the dry reeds. Masses of shadow here and there loomed out in the darkness, and sometimes, vibrating with one movement, they rose up and swayed like immense black waves pressing forward to engulf them. The cold of the nights made them clasp closer; the sighs of their lips seemed to them deeper; their eyes, that they could hardly see, larger; and in the midst of the silence low words were spoken that fell on their souls sonorous, crystalline, and that reverberated in multiplied vibrations. — Gustave Flaubert

New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts. — Sri Aurobindo

Some days, Kaylin fervently wished that she had already passed Adult 101 and could get on with being the person she wanted to be. — Michelle Sagara

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. — Aldous Huxley

Life is not as easy as croosing a field — Boris Pasternak

When you were a bird you knew the fairies pretty well, and you remember a good deal about them in your babyhood, which it is a great pity you can't write down, for gradually you forget, and I have heard of children who declared that they had never once seen a fairy. — J.M. Barrie

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude. — Winston Churchill

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is. — Joseph Wood Krutch