Famous Quotes & Sayings

Very few have been successful. Nuance is really defining voice interface.

Rick Perlstein

As a general rule of thumb, Democrats do better in national elections when the year's defining issue is economic fairness, and Republicans do better when the defining issue is national security.

Brian Bosworth

All I want is the defining moment.

Britney Spears

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

I've always known that performing is what I want to do. There was never a defining moment. I just came out that way.

Gavin O'Connor

Sundance is going to be a defining moment in my life. But the unfortunate thing about Sundance is, when you have a film there, you can't have the opportunity to see other films.

Tony Fadell

I don't want the iPod to be my defining thing.

Amanda Palmer

My number-one goal is to never feel like I'm strictly defining myself. The minute I feel like I'm doing that as anything - as theatrical, as feminist, as songwriter - I feel like the minute I name it, I'm stuck in a box.

We are really depressed. We are left clawing our way back to commitments made three years ago. When we start defining success as simply standing still, that's a terrible situation to be in.

Paul Henderson

Obviously, it was a defining moment for us as Canadians. I hear it every day, and it still is. It's never going to go away. We were voted the Team of the Century, and the goal was voted the sports moment of the century.

Gurinder Chadha

I was a journalist when I made 'I'm British But...' I'd seen how important the media was in terms of defining Indians - after the riots in the '80s, I was like, 'Oh my God!'

Art Alexakis

'Santa Monica' was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But it's not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is.

But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was done - this was something else again.

Daniel Day-Lewis

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

Bill Cowher

I think it does in a lot of people's eyes. To me, it is a lot more about the journey than the final destination.... But in a lot of people's eyes, it is the defining part of a career.

Today is a defining victory but there are still many issues outstanding.

We're in the middle of the integration test cycle. There haven't been any surprises installing the system. Just defining rules and policies, trying to determine how everything should work.

Elijah Wood

It had a profound impact on me as a human being, and I did a lot of growing within that, so that will always be a defining moment in my life, a defining time.

For me, this is one of the defining images from that period of history.

For the short run, gasoline prices are going to be the dominant element in defining the economy.

Lupita Nyong'o

I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When you're describing someone, you don't start out with 'he's black, he's white.'

Eleanor Catton

The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have.

Trafalgar was a defining moment in Britain's history as it established Britain's maritime ascendancy for 100 years which saw a fantastic growth of trade and empire during Victorian times,

Paul Johnson

We were not in sync in defining the scope of the project.

Jim Webb

There is nothing that's been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn't been either illuminating surroundings or defining a character or moving a plot.

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

Adam Scott

'Step Brothers' itself, when I did it, I don't know if I had any idea that it would become a defining moment in my career and life like it has, and I'm really happy that that's the one that ended up being that for me.

Peter Mandelson

Our meeting has been useful, not in narrowing the differences but in defining them, ... I feel we have done everything we could reasonably be expected to do in agriculture.

We have been working hard on defining our tourism focus and marketing it.

Chris White

That was the defining thing to me about the whole trip - man did that, not Mother Nature.

Emma Watson

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It’s about freedom.

Richard O'Brien

A news editor takes the hot story of the day. People take the salient moments of ones life - Those defining moments - and Rocky's got to be there.

Corey Dillon

Oh, I don't know. We'll see. I don't want to put any stock in that. I can't put stock in that yet. ... If he doesn't do it the right way, and that's going to be the defining mode of this football team, we won't miss a beat. He says the right things to me, but I see better than I hear.