Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ridley Scott

I'm very competitive. I just go with what engages or fascinates me in my work and that's it. I have no definition; I just love to do it.

Frank Dobson

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

Tom Holt

The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet

Toni Morrison

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

Edward Albee

Any definition which limits us is deplorable.

Richard Thaler

The median person still thought that their prices were going to go up. That's the definition of a bubble.

Henri Poincare

What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined, and applies only to them; it is that which satisfies the rules of logic. But in education it is not that; it is one that can be understood by the pupils.

George Gaylord Simpson

It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?

Mary E. Pearson

There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.

Kurt Cobain

By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not,

Jonathan Safran Foer

I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.

Norman Spinrad

There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'

Orson Welles

My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!

Michael Hurst

You've got to keep in mind that Albee says he is working towards a new definition of tragedy,

The issue with technology is, it's -- by definition -- change. You can't just go to sleep and say I'm going to forget it for 20 years.

The Lexus LS 460 was designed to expand on the definition of the full-size luxury sedan as well as the level of innovative technology, especially as it relates to safety.

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.

The legal definition is where your principal office is. So we are now in line with what took place five years ago.

Simone Weil

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

Remy de Gourmont

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

Terry Pratchett

And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

Selma Blair

I played teen roles until high definition came out.

Neil Postman

A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.

Jose Mujica

My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied.

Jose Bergamin

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.

Rick Wright

The ultimate definition of visitor-serving is going to be massive. The economic success of downtown depends on it.

Peter Drucker

The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives.

Peter Drucker

The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.

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.

Maria Shriver

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

Peter Gay

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.