Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Bay

I hope to have a long career, and I don't want to be defined by things that aren't the music.

Wayne Allard

It's hard to define what pork spending is.

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

Jacqueline Novogratz

I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with is how you actually define poverty. What does it mean?

Alfonso Cuaron

I love L.A. I always have such a great time in L.A. The way I kind of define me and L.A. is the noise of the factory doesn't let me sleep well.

In Being; God is not limited by love, but is rather defined by it.

Jan Schakowsky

In my heart, I know that these mistakes do not define or diminish this good man, or the good work that he has done over the last 40 years or that he will do in the future,

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.

Before that we had thought of ourselves in large part as being defined religiously: 98 percent of Americans were Protestant.

He's a player who makes the most of his opportunity. There's not really one true outstanding trait that defines him, but rather you have to look at the whole package - his versatility, his attitude, his ability.

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.

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.

Spike Jonze

I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.

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

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

Nicholas Sparks

Maybe I’d like to be defined by what I am.

I am not going to let this game define (my Army-Navy career). I am going to look at it as a very good opportunity, a great game to play in. And I will definitely focus on the wins we've had.

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.

Tom Hiddleston

Thor and Loki are defined by each other.

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.

Oprah Winfrey

Always take a stand for yourself, your values. You're defined by what you stand for

For the first two years, we prepared all the documents, re-arranged our operating structure and defined our mission and scope of operations. They were not physical, noticeable changes.

I don't think we define our lives by our illness. We define ourselves by how we live.

John Pierce

I could define the last 5 years of my life with one word. Scared....Scared of not being great.

Mark Stevenson

We have to stop being defined by what we own, and start being defined by what we create.

John Roberts

An administrator can define the rules without the need to do any programming.

Jose Maria

And all this defines us as a civilized, democratic and a strong nation.

Bill Cowher

The longer you're in this business, sometimes you get defined by what you haven't done, instead of what you have done.

Max Lucado

Let your failures refine you, not define you.

You can talk directly to that EJB, but you still define the service using WSDL.

The true heart and soul of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, as with New Orleans itself, is music. It's the force that drives and defines us. It's not just for entertainment, but it feeds our soul.