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.

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.

The very definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.

These are the kinds of questions I see in play now. The definition of what's rural is much more complex.

We are by definition optimists but I think determined would be a better word. It was a first step, an important step, but frankly it was one quarter of very modest profit and we are not stopping,

Robin Givhan

I've always summed up my definition of fashion as the way that people present themselves on the public stage.

Kevin Harrington

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.

Mark Gottfried

This was the definition of a team win.

Jenna Jameson

My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.

Sometimes we misunderstand each other, but after all, isn't that the definition of a marriage?

Bill Gross

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

It's a national dialogue that a lot of people by definition can't participate in today.

It's going to be an important case, because it will go forward in raising a lot of questions ranging from rules that all journalists should follow when protecting their (sources) to the very definition of what a journalist is in the digital age.

That is completely the definition of the silhouette, ... We work on the legs for 30 years okay? Our proposition is evolution of what we present the last season. (It) is always a continuation.

Jim Boeheim

If you're analytical, you have to be blunt. That's by definition. You can't analyze something and not be blunt about it. What would you rather hear if not the truth?

Jackie Kennedy

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!

Christopher Lasch

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.