Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Esther Dyson

The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.

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.

Christopher Hitchens

The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.

George Vecsey

Every championship, by definition, is historic.

George Carlin

The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage.

Fay Weldon

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

Ezra Pound

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

Graham McTavish

I am the complete and utter definition of a Luddite.

Gijs de Vries

We still lack a global definition of terrorism.

Hugh Dancy

Well, fluffy shirts are, by definition, very comfortable.

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

Robin Givhan

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

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

Mark Gottfried

This was the definition of a team win.

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.

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

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,

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.

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.

Ernst Mayr

In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts.

Jenna Jameson

My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.

Jim C. Hines

The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives.

Kevin Harrington

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.

Gloria Feldt

The definition of promiscuity? One more partner than you've ever had.

I don't like science because I don't think it makes sense to put a definition on everything. It's a lot more exciting to think of things as mysterious.

Newt Gingrich

How this president handles the Middle East in general and wins in Iraq in particular will be probably the most important definition of his presidency.

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.

By definition you can't have an epidemic of a development disorder, ... This is a medical problem.