Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

Bruno Latour

The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.

Bill Joy

The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.

Dennis Brown

But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that.

Ed Droste

I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.

Charles Sanders Peirce

The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.

bell hooks

Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.

Barry Sonnenfeld

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

Brent Weeks

You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.

Charley Reese

It is naturally only a coincidence that all too often, American foreign-policy objectives dovetail nicely with the economic objectives of multinational corporations.

Antony Jay

In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.

Dennis Kucinich

Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.

Cecile Richards

It's better to be a corporation today than to be a woman in front of the Supreme Court.

Charlie Melancon

I don't represent corporations.

Brian De Palma

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations

Billy Bragg

What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.

Al Franken

The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.

Douglas Adams

The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that's not saying much. Let's face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end.

Bill Lee

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Taking a hypersensitive approach to life had come to seem so much more pure and honest then joining the ranks of the numb masses who could let it all slide by. What I stopped realizing was that if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all. Everything registers at the same decibel...

Jessica Lange

I never just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad.

Francis Bacon

If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

Mark Teixeira

You can never pat yourself on the back during the season. Then you get complacent, stop working and let yourself slide.

Naomi Judd

An expert is just somebody from out of town with slides.

Margaret Atwood

How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.

Thomas Jefferson

When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin.

Robert Smith

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.