Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Burnside

The definition of a page-turner really aught to be that this page is so good, you can't bear to leave it behind, but then the next page is there and it might be just as amazing as this one.

Lilith Saintcrow

Oh God, Oh God we’re all gonna die doesn’t really fit the definition of banter, now does it?

Larry Kramer

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

Joseph Campbell

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.

John Baldessari

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

Jodie Foster

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

Elizabeth Gilbert

If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith.

Karen Joy Fowler

I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.

Maria Shriver

My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend.

Hani Furstenberg

For Americans I'll always be Israeli, and for Israelis I'll always be American. But I really have no need for definitions.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.

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.

Marc Bloch

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

Marshall McLuhan

Language is a form of organized stutter.

Michael Kinsley

The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

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.

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.

Terry Pratchett

And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

Simone Weil

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

Remy de Gourmont

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

Robert M. Pirsig

Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them.

Wole Soyinka

I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.

Warren Farrell

I define power as control over ones life. A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.