Famous Quotes & Sayings

John is conservative in his political beliefs. He is somebody, though, who has not defined his life driven by his politics or driven by his ideology.

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

Robert Hughes

if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.

John Hickenlooper

I hope there's some cowtown left, because as much as we are going to be defined by the future, the past is also part of who we are.

Paul Hewitt

This is a 401(k)-styled defined contribution plan, ... It has performed very, very well.

A shoulder pad on T-shirts, in sweaters, in shirts, in jackets, in everything. It's not a huge overwhelming pad, but it's a very defined shoulder.

Curtis Hanson

defined by the outward differences in the appearances, we tried to extend this duality to the two geographic worlds in which the story takes place.

A quality season is defined by winning ugly games. When you're making all your shots and there is a flow, it's all there, it's easy for everybody. ... When you look back, a great season sometimes comes down to winning these games.

Mika

Some people make records that are defined by their sexuality, but mine really are not.

Science, properly understood, should merely be defined as the knowledge man can gain from observing the natural world.

The San Diego region in many ways is defined by our relationship with the ocean. It's our front yard and a beautiful playground for families and visitors. It should be clean, safe, and inviting.

That's going to be a delicate exercise because it does involve essentially trying to establish defined grid of rates, but that is something that we've got together with the province on because it will be important to preserving stability,

Patrick Wilson

You're defined by your older brothers' or sisters' music.

Bruce Lee

Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.

Every time a sentence about great American writers is written, it will include August's name, ... He defined the Yale Rep's relationship to groundbreaking American theater.

Tom Hiddleston

Thor and Loki are defined by each other.

Mark Stevenson

We have to stop being defined by what we own, and start being defined by what we create.

Lee Evans

I'm a lot more confident, ... I think more so this year, my role is defined and I know what they expect of me.

Chris Eigeman

I'm a Jesuit when it comes to structure, but I really think that structure is defined by character. Everything serves that master.

Music is tremendously important for our show. The series is partially defined in the audience's eyes as a wonderful vehicle for incredible music.

Carmen Ejogo

Growing up in London, with a hippie mom, I don't know that I'm most people's definition of what a black person is. I'm mixed, yes, but in the world I'm defined as black before I'm defined white. I've never been called white.

LeBron James

I don't think so. I got the first two years out of the way, and that's when you usually do it. I don't want to be defined as being in the slam dunk contest, it's just not me.

Peter Morgan

Since (Koizumi) defined party membership exclusively in terms of members' views on postal privatization, this does not necessarily imply that the party agrees on much else.

Before that we had thought of ourselves in large part as being defined religiously: 98 percent of Americans were Protestant.

Sebastian Coe

Good running is the ability to have a very well defined on-board computer. The ability to judge distances when running in traffic.

Daniel Barenboim

Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

Andrew Pyper

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

Most people are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.

Mobile ESPN has defined a new wireless category, and with that, we are positioning the service and our marketing around the idea that life will never get in the way of sports again. This is more than a phone -- it is like putting ESPN in your pocket.

Roland Martin

My life has never been defined as Roland Martin, CNN; Roland Martin, TVOne; or Roland Martin, 'Tom Joyner Morning Show.' I'm appreciative of all of those platforms, but I've done all different things. I'm still Roland Martin.

Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.

Bruce Cockburn

I think if I really put my mind to it I probably did think I would be, but under what conditions, ... I expect to be doing this until I drop or become incapacitated. I don't make any more defined plans than that.

It all comes down to whether you're defined as a trader or an investor. There's so much misinformation out there on the distinction, because the IRS hasn't really issued definitive guidelines on it.