Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

Bruno Latour

The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.

Bill Joy

The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.

Dennis Brown

But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that.

Ed Droste

I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.

Charles Sanders Peirce

The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.

bell hooks

Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.

Barry Sonnenfeld

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

Brent Weeks

You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.

Brandi Carlile

I'm not sure I'll ever be famous by anyone's definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life's work.

Bill Hybels

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

Ben Okri

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

Art Spiegelman

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

Aristotle

If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.

Aristotle

1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes.

Adam Carolla

The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.

Abraham Maslow

We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women.

Albert Einstein

The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.

Aaron Allston

Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.

Doug Stanhope

High definition ruined a lot of things that I used to hold sacrosanct in pornography.

Anne Carson

Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition

Andrew Wiles

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

Andrew Bird

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

Ambrose Bierce

HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

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.

Dave Winer

I looked up 'standard' in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions.

David Mamet

My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.'

Dario Argento

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

Deepak Chopra

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

Anthony Marra

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

Ally Sheedy

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

Robert Morgan

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

Bharati Mukherjee

My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.