Psychologists call it "mate value, " and it's different for men and for women, which may explain why the study produced different results for the two genders.

We've heard some remarkable stories from some remarkable speakers. But for me, what was contagious about all of them was that they were infected by something I call the "I Can" bug.

Although these words come from the Internet, they are often said to be from a "Martian language" of outer space, since they are not loanwords from common languages, such as English.

We’re renters, not owners, and were growing tired of waiting for the day when we would be able to buy something, so we began turning our house into a place we could call home.

Most of the displays are only visible in far northern places close to the Arctic Circle; that’s why they’re called the Northern Lights.

Black and green tea comes from the same plant, Camellia sinensis.

I think a magician might call this something else, you know, sleight of hand, misdirection.

That's why they're called wet dreams — they happen when you're sleeping and your underwear or the bed might be a little wet when you wake up.

I call the persons who have lofty ideal and put it into practice as pragmatic idealists. They are ones I best respect and I hope to be such a person for years.

Well, call it idealism, but it is my way to do what I love doing.

For that reason, it’s a good idea to engage in what the consultants call “kaizen” – a Japanese word for continuous improvement.

Break down just once — have one smoke, one single drink — and at best it's a "slip. " At worst it's a relapse, and more often it's a fall off the wagon: failure.

In animals we call this instinct.

Psychologists call this “cognitive dissonance”—the ability to make a compelling, heartfelt case for one thing while doing another.

Now you'll see a lot of other systems around the plant. Now these other systems are what we call support systems.

Express buses were not that popular at the time, but they did have some kind of buses starting in the early evening and arriving destination at dawn which we customarily call 'night buses'.

In America, we call this moon the Harvest Moon.

He had been her husband's college friend; was now a journalist, and in no sense a society man or "a man about town, " which were, perhaps, some of the reasons she had never met him.

In answer to the promise of the Bishop's heavenly mansion in another life, she claims another sort of house, what she calls love's mansion which is noble itself and which is to be lived here on earth.

We call that a sketch, but usually, their shows don't look like comedies.