Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendy Kopp

We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.

Mark Gottfried

This was the definition of a team win.

Too nice of a guy? I don't know the definition of too nice of a guy.

Robert Morgan

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

Christopher Poole

When people meet me, and I'm generally pretty sociable, and I meet some definition of normal, they're almost surprised. And simultaneously disappointed.

Kevin Harrington

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.

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.

Marshall McLuhan

Language is a form of organized stutter.

Gertrude Stein

How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.

Jenna Jameson

My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.

Jim C. Hines

The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives.

Julian Assange

If you look at most definitions, a god is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. In particular, god knows when you are doing something that you shouldn't be doing and whether you are playing according to god's rules.

Marc Bloch

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

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.

Ernst Mayr

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

Bill Evans

Do you remember the Platonic dialog in which Socrates argues the definition of wisdom with Hippocrates? As far as I'm concerned, Hippocrates was the first hippy, a guy who was smug because he thought he knew something. Socrates was wise because he realized how little he knew.

Definition of Standards: Something that should be the way I say it should be

Robin Givhan

I've always summed up my definition of fashion as the way that people present themselves on the public stage.

Sometimes we misunderstand each other, but after all, isn't that the definition of a marriage?

Bill Gross

Some people say farmers have always helped farmers, People say we're expanding the definition of neighbor.

Bill Gates

A lot of people have a very narrow definition of a PC,

This is a situation in which the vice president by definition is a shadow, ... He must move the way the president moves, he can't move independently and at this point he should move forcefully.

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.

Esther Dyson

The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.

Jackie Kennedy

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!

Christopher Lasch

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

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.

Gijs de Vries

We still lack a global definition of terrorism.

Hugh Dancy

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

George Carlin

The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage.

Fay Weldon

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

Ezra Pound

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.