Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Madison

The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.

James Lipton

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

John Henry Patterson

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

Sheri S. Tepper

I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.

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.

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.

Frank Dobson

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

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.

Edward Albee

Any definition which limits us is deplorable.

Richelle Mead

Immortals are, by definition, immortal. End of story.

Tryon Edwards

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

Truman Capote

Nancy clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that is the definition of a lady.

Rick Yancey

The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.

Peter Gay

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

Peter McWilliams

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

Quentin Tarantino

I've never used High Definition video, never, ever, ever, ever, ever. And I never will. I can't stand that crap.

Thomas Reid

A definition is nothing else but an explication of the meaning of a word, by words whose meaning is already known. Hence it is evident that every word cannot be defined; for the definition must consist of words; and there could be no definition, if there were not words previously understood without definition.