Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pico Iyer

I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, lost in the moment and forgot the time, whether was conversation, movie, or a game I was playing. That was my definition of happiness. And I was least happy when I was all over the place, distracted and restless.

Spike Jonze

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

Octavio Paz

As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.

We have to redefine the definition of a 'gene,'

The appropriate economic definition of a separate product is an item for which there is sufficient demand such that it is efficient to offer that item separately from other items,

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.

It doesn't require the use of Web crawlers. It requires someone knowledgeable about the definition of what a government document is.

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.

The issue with technology is, it's -- by definition -- change. You can't just go to sleep and say I'm going to forget it for 20 years.

The Lexus LS 460 was designed to expand on the definition of the full-size luxury sedan as well as the level of innovative technology, especially as it relates to safety.

Allison Jones

The legwork is always hard. Really finding people that you think are good enough. Just the definition of what we have to do is finding good enough people that you really think are special.

The legal definition is where your principal office is. So we are now in line with what took place five years ago.

James Madison

The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.

James Lipton

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

Frank Dobson

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

Edward Albee

Any definition which limits us is deplorable.

Richard Thaler

The median person still thought that their prices were going to go up. That's the definition of a bubble.

Jose Mujica

My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied.

Jose Bergamin

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.

Kurt Cobain

By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not,

Jonathan Safran Foer

I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.

Norman Spinrad

There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'

Orson Welles

My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!

Henri Poincare

What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined, and applies only to them; it is that which satisfies the rules of logic. But in education it is not that; it is one that can be understood by the pupils.

John Henry Patterson

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

Benito Mussolini

The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state

Bill Gross

Some people say farmers have always helped farmers, People say we're expanding the definition of neighbor.

Jonathan Swift

Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.

Terrence Howard

This celebrates the definition of what an ensemble is all about. There's 74 of us.

Bill Gates

A lot of people have a very narrow definition of a PC,

You're not going to see a wholesale switch over to all 4K by 2K. It will start with one, two, three, four channels, just like high definition (HD) when it was first introduced.

This is a situation in which the vice president by definition is a shadow, ... He must move the way the president moves, he can't move independently and at this point he should move forcefully.