Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Boeheim

If you're analytical, you have to be blunt. That's by definition. You can't analyze something and not be blunt about it. What would you rather hear if not the truth?

I speak for our employees on this issue. The definition needs to be expanded to fit today's family.

We are by definition optimists but I think determined would be a better word. It was a first step, an important step, but frankly it was one quarter of very modest profit and we are not stopping,

To me, great music's great music. If it falls under my umbrella, my definition of what progressive is, it's good enough for me, and hopefully people will come out.

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.

Ravi Zacharias

Truth by definition excludes.

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.

Michael Kinsley

The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

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.

John Hodgman

If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is so meticulous.

It's a national dialogue that a lot of people by definition can't participate in today.

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.

Dave Winer

I looked up 'standard' in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions.

David Mamet

My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.'

Dario Argento

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

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.

Bill Gates

(High definition DVD) is the last physical media format there will ever be. There won't be one after this one.

Jack Kingston

If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.

By definition you can't have an epidemic of a development disorder, ... This is a medical problem.

Juan Pierre

He's the definition of pitching. He's not overpowering, he doesn't have this tremendous stuff. He gets it done every day.

Chuck Hagel

but I think we need to have a better definition as to what that means.

There is a provision for a local office in the contract. But our definition of local may not be the same as Time Warner's.

There is a provision for a local office in the contract, ... But our definition of local may not be the same as Time Warner's.

Grace Meng

I take the definition and title of my job - Representative - seriously. That's what I will be above and beyond everything else.

Terrence Howard

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

Without a definition of what is substantial food business, every judge could have a different opinion.

Jonathan Swift

Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.

The very definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.

These are the kinds of questions I see in play now. The definition of what's rural is much more complex.

Gloria Feldt

The definition of promiscuity? One more partner than you've ever had.

George Vecsey

Every championship, by definition, is historic.

You're not going to see a wholesale switch over to all 4K by 2K. It will start with one, two, three, four channels, just like high definition (HD) when it was first introduced.

Robert Burns

Mankind is a science that defies definitions.