Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Ally Sheedy

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

Anne Carson

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

S. Truett Cathy

Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good.

George III

It is essential to our interest and the security of our colonies that the several nations or tribes of Indians... who live under our protection, should not be molested or disturbed.

Gao Xingjian

What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist.

Jean Rhys

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.

Adam McKay

I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

Ada Lovelace

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

Dan Quayle

Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women.

Billy Collins

Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos.

Abu Abbas

We all were shocked. We saw it burning. We called the fire department. We didn't know how to behave. Chaos was everywhere.

Ira Kurzban

What's happening in Haiti is what's happening in Iraq: It's just total chaos, except there are no U.S. troops on the ground.

David Howell

Chaos surrounds him out there. I had to handle it for five minutes at the end today and I was frustrated. He probably deals with that every day.

Rodger Baker

Chaos in North Korea is still seen as the most likely scenario for some 'adventurism' with conventional or nuclear weapons.

Isiah Thomas

My job is to make sure in all the chaos you can still see the flowers, you can still see the good things happening.

Steve Sanders

Let me just touch on the legal chaos this would drop in your lap.

Rand Paul

I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

Denis Freeman

You leave your man and you double-team and you try to gamble and create some chaos and that worked out. We got steals and some easy hoops.