Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Clinton

That depends on what your definition of "is" is

textbook definition of the term 'good friend.' He would do anything for you.

Bharati Mukherjee

My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I tell this story to illustrate the truth of the statement I heard long ago in the Army: Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. There is a very great distinction because when you are planning for an emergency you must start with this one thing: the very definition of 'emergency' is that it is unexpected, therefore it is not going to happen the way you are planning.

Shaquille O'Neal

I think he's the true definition of a great player and you guys should recognize that. I think the recognition of a great player has been lost the last 10, 15 years.

Christine Quinn

I think 'having it all' is a phrase I don't particularly like. You need to have what you want. 'All' seems to me to be an imposed list, an imposed definition by society of what 'all' is supposed to be.

Shane Carruth

I stole a ton of film language from Steven Soderbergh and 'The Limey.' It's the definition of elliptical. It was the first movie I remember that introduced me to storytelling that isn't just one scene after another, and that things can be mixed up in the way that real experiences can.

Richard Land

The American people are not sending their young men and women to Afghanistan for this definition of freedom. Mr. Rahman should be released immediately.

That was the definition of a heartbreaker. We're using that as motivation this year and hopefully we can have a better outcome. We don't want to leave anything up to the (NCAA Tournament) selection committee.

Kara Swisher

Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?

Basically, you have to meet the definition of the school. Right now, part of the problem we're facing is we're meeting the definition of a program. We're going to work on that.

Chinua Achebe

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

Charles Sanders Peirce

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

Ben Okri

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

Art Spiegelman

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

Nobody wants to just jump in and get schooled and then get yelled at by the twelve year old that did it. That's not the definition of fun for most people.

Music is included because music downloads fit the definition of personal property.

Adam Carolla

The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.

Doug Stanhope

High definition ruined a lot of things that I used to hold sacrosanct in pornography.

Dweezil Zappa

The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the distortion/fuzz elements.

Ambrose Bierce

HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

Sigmar Polke

The conventional definition of reality, and the idea of 'normal life', mean nothing.

The definition of price gouging is very nebulous,

The definition (of literacy) could be individual, depending on the person's goals.

Benjamin Franklin

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

The definition of 'flood' is fairly ironclad. It's essentially water that comes from below,

The definition of 'emergency' expands over time. Eventually letting your spouse know you'll be late and you'll pick up dinner on the way qualifies.

Adlai E. Stevenson

The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Abraham Maslow

We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women.

Albert Einstein

The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.

Anne Carson

Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition

Andrew Wiles

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

Andrew Bird

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.