Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christine Quinn

I think 'having it all' is a phrase I don't particularly like. You need to have what you want. 'All' seems to me to be an imposed list, an imposed definition by society of what 'all' is supposed to be.

Shane Carruth

I stole a ton of film language from Steven Soderbergh and 'The Limey.' It's the definition of elliptical. It was the first movie I remember that introduced me to storytelling that isn't just one scene after another, and that things can be mixed up in the way that real experiences can.

Ernst Mayr

In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts.

Christopher Hitchens

The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.

Graham McTavish

I am the complete and utter definition of a Luddite.

Hugh Dancy

Well, fluffy shirts are, by definition, very comfortable.

Gertrude Stein

How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.

Jenna Jameson

My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.

Irvine Welsh

By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

Newt Gingrich

How this president handles the Middle East in general and wins in Iraq in particular will be probably the most important definition of his presidency.

I don't like science because I don't think it makes sense to put a definition on everything. It's a lot more exciting to think of things as mysterious.

Rick Yancey

The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.

Malorie Blackman

I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.

It's going to be an important case, because it will go forward in raising a lot of questions ranging from rules that all journalists should follow when protecting their (sources) to the very definition of what a journalist is in the digital age.

Marshall McLuhan

Language is a form of organized stutter.

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.

Lilith Saintcrow

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

Joseph Campbell

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

Maria Shriver

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

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.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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

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.

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.

Allison Jones

The legwork is always hard. Really finding people that you think are good enough. Just the definition of what we have to do is finding good enough people that you really think are special.

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.

Jodie Foster

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

Terrence Howard

This celebrates the definition of what an ensemble is all about. There's 74 of us.

There isn't one unified view of a definition of what all of this stuff is. It's something we are going to resolve over time.

Charles Sanders Peirce

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

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.