Famous Quotes & Sayings

They define something special in human nature. They give us a measure of what's possible and what's truly sensational or phenomenal.

Natalie Cole

I started saying, 'I don't want to be crazy anymore.' I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular.

Sarah Parker

What ultimately defines a relationship is another relationship.

What defines where you can rate yourself is the World Cup. You have to show what you are about at the World Cup. Hopefully we will get to show what we can do.

Bill Snyder

We spent a lot of time looking backward, and that was out of necessity. What has taken place is we've worked very diligently and hard collectively, our staff and our players, to define exactly what the issues were from this past season.

This is the kind of game that defines a season. It was all worth it.

Annalee Newitz

In the 1920s and 30s, when Radio Shack was young, a much earlier generation of nerds swarmed into these tiny shops to talk excitedly about building radios and other transmission devices. You might say that Radio Shack helped define gadget culture for four generations, from radio whizzes up to smartphone dorks.

Craig Venter

I naively thought that we could have a molecular definition for life, come up with a set of genes that would minimally define life. Nature just refuses to be so easily quantified.

I guess I would define it as we didn't play with urgency for 60 minutes. My definition of urgency is do what you have to do to make the play. We worked hard, but urgency and hard work are two different things.

Robert Hughes

if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.

If you're going to say don't park in the yard, we have to define what a driveway is.

Daniel Barenboim

Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

Ginni Rometty

Don't let others define you. Define yourself.

Andrew Pyper

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

In other words, Japan may now be in a technically defined recession.

James Mercer

I remember being in high school, and you had to draw those lines and define yourself. I don't think when I was in high school I would have been willing to admit that I liked the Shins. I was into TSOL and Black Flag. I probably would have listened to the Shins secretly in my bedroom.

Paul Hewitt

This is a 401(k)-styled defined contribution plan, ... It has performed very, very well.

Eloping, as we define it as anything other than the TBW, is really growing fast,

As the toy industry defines itself as an industry of family entertainment, there are signs of real significant health and growth.

Bob Taft

We have defined our challenge. We must now meet it head on. And we won't let the special interests stand in our way.

Ehud Barak

We fully realize that on the way to peace we will have to make compromises, but it is too early to define what kind of compromises, ... We will define it once we realize what President Assad is ready to give.

Jim Knight

We want to get going, there's no doubt about that. You've got to run the systems to find out what works and what doesn't to define our work program.

Cher Wang

Within HTC, hundreds of ideas are tested and discarded to find those rare ideas that define the HTC user experience.

Michael A. Stackpole

We all are faced by problems of 'How am I going to get the rent?' or 'Am I going to have this job six months from now?' It's very difficult to define in your life a victory.

The San Diego region in many ways is defined by our relationship with the ocean. It's our front yard and a beautiful playground for families and visitors. It should be clean, safe, and inviting.

The role-based idea just wouldn't fly here, because I can guarantee you that every person you define -- salesperson, executive -- is going to want some feature that's not in their role

What is victory? Nobody has defined what victory is.

They have to be good jobs. At the end of the day, what defines a good job is the wage level.

They've let them define us and that's our mistake.

Science, properly understood, should merely be defined as the knowledge man can gain from observing the natural world.

The Being as an opposite of the Void is defined as Knowledge opposed to the non-Knowledge and this way it is a non-Knowledge which receives the meaning of Knowledge precisely because it has the possibility to reflect the only thing that is true in its Self, namely non-Knowledge!

Ryan Holmes

Don't be scared to try new things, but remember to hold on to the vision of your company and the initial successes that defined your brand.

You think about the guys who have been there the whole time and really defined the Miami Dolphins' defense... you think about Zach (Thomas), you think about Jason (Taylor) and you think about Sam. Sam was such a perfect fit under the press-and-go system under Jimmy. He was a guy that, just by his presence, made quarterbacks throw the other way.