Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Dave Winer

I looked up 'standard' in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions.

David Mamet

My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.'

Dario Argento

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

Deepak Chopra

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

Anthony Marra

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

Ally Sheedy

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

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

Randeep Hooda

If someone explains me the definition of love, I will give my life to the person. Love is a thing which is difficult to understand. Love is always evolving.

Al Sharpton

If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are.

Without a definition of what is substantial food business, every judge could have a different opinion.

Wendy Kopp

We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.

Robert Morgan

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

To me, great music's great music. If it falls under my umbrella, my definition of what progressive is, it's good enough for me, and hopefully people will come out.

Too nice of a guy? I don't know the definition of too nice of a guy.

Christopher Poole

When people meet me, and I'm generally pretty sociable, and I meet some definition of normal, they're almost surprised. And simultaneously disappointed.

The Edge

What a song is is a subjective thing. There's no one real definition for it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

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.

Peter Jackson

It is a major surgery. Major by any definition of the word.

I saw myself as a facilitator. They knew specifically what freedom of speech was -- they could give you the textbook definition -- they had never had the opportunity to practice it.

Someone once told me, 'You don't know it yet, but we are the lucky ones.' But I do know it. I have found a new definition of what it means to live (because) I have seen what it means to die.

Danny Meyer

Some people are near- or farsighted - I'm thorn-sighted. The thorns on the rose are in really sharp definition for me, the rose petals a little fuzzier.

Bill Clinton

That depends on what your definition of "is" is

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

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.

Bill Gates

The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

Oscar Arias

Peace is not a matter of prizes or trophies. It is not the product of a victory or command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement.

We couldn't come up with a definition of planets in splendid isolation,