E. T. Bell | If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.
E. T. Bell |
Evan Sayet | What Democrats call 'nuanced,' most people refer to as 'stupidity.'
Evan Sayet |
galaxy | In the astronomical literature, the capitalized word 'Galaxy' is used to refer to our galaxy, the Milky Way, to distinguish it from the billions of other galaxies. |
Godfried Danneels | The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.
Godfried Danneels |
Gregory Bateson | To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time.
Gregory Bateson |
Helena Bonham Carter | No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.
Helena Bonham Carter |
Henri Poincare | Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence.
Henri Poincare |
Henry Kravis | I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.
Henry Kravis |
ichor | In the Command and Conquer series of RTS games, ichor is the term used by an alien species to refer to a toxic mineral humans call Tiberium. |
idiom | In the English expression to kick the bucket, a listener knowing only the meanings of kick and bucket would be unable to deduce the expression's true meaning: to die. Although this idiomatic phrase can refer to kicking a bucket, native speakers of English rarely use it so. |
inquiry | I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the intrusion of other matters. |
James L. Buckley | Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls.
James L. Buckley |
Jean Piaget | The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.
Jean Piaget |
Joe Baca | Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.
Joe Baca |
John Biddle | What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life.
John Biddle |
John Boehner | Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction.
John Boehner |
kadar | Kadar (Hungarian: "cooper") is a Hungarian surname which may refer to: János Kádár (1912–1989), Hungarian politician |
kaffir | Kafir (kaffir) is an Arabic word meaning "rejecter" or "ingrate," also the term "Kuffar" the plural of the word "Kafir" is used to refer to peasants Surah 57 Al-Hadid Ayah 20; as they till earth and "cover up" seeds. |
kantian | Because of the thoroughness of the Kantian paradigm shift, his influence extends even to thinkers who do not specifically refer to his work or use his terminology. |
kashmir | The United Nations and several sources use the designation Jammu and Kashmir to refer to this entire geographical area.
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