Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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!'

Bill Gates

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

Nick Miller

We have to get everybody on the same page. Everybody had their own definition of what is appropriate and inappropriate.

M. Night Shyamalan

When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

The use of conventional signs is my definition of writing, ... information is being passed through three different levels in ways suggestive of a conventional system.

I speak for our employees on this issue. The definition needs to be expanded to fit today's family.

J. R. Moehringer

Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas, I love having lived there.

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.

Malorie Blackman

I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.

John Hodgman

If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is so meticulous.

Jack Kingston

If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.

Juan Pierre

He's the definition of pitching. He's not overpowering, he doesn't have this tremendous stuff. He gets it done every day.

Bill Gates

(High definition DVD) is the last physical media format there will ever be. There won't be one after this one.

Chuck Hagel

but I think we need to have a better definition as to what that means.

Ravi Zacharias

Truth by definition excludes.

Mary E. Pearson

There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.

George Gaylord Simpson

It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.

Michael Hurst

You've got to keep in mind that Albee says he is working towards a new definition of tragedy,

Rick Wright

The ultimate definition of visitor-serving is going to be massive. The economic success of downtown depends on it.

Peter Drucker

The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives.

Peter Drucker

The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.

Jonathan Swift

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

Bill Evans

Do you remember the Platonic dialog in which Socrates argues the definition of wisdom with Hippocrates? As far as I'm concerned, Hippocrates was the first hippy, a guy who was smug because he thought he knew something. Socrates was wise because he realized how little he knew.

Definition of Standards: Something that should be the way I say it should be

Bill Gates

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

Terrence Howard

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

There isn't one unified view of a definition of what all of this stuff is. It's something we are going to resolve over time.

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.