Famous Quotes & Sayings

Art Spiegelman

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

Aristotle

1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes.

Adam Carolla

The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.

Abraham Maslow

We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women.

Dweezil Zappa

The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the distortion/fuzz elements.

Deepak Chopra

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

Anthony Marra

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

Ambrose Bierce

HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

Ally Sheedy

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

Anne Carson

Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition

Andrew Wiles

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

Thomas Reid

A definition is nothing else but an explication of the meaning of a word, by words whose meaning is already known. Hence it is evident that every word cannot be defined; for the definition must consist of words; and there could be no definition, if there were not words previously understood without definition.

T. S. Eliot

The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing.

Simone Weil

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

Tony Hsieh

The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't based on external factors.

Tom Holt

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

Rumi

Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.

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.

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.

Mary E. Pearson

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

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.

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.

Michael Kinsley

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

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?

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.

Esther Dyson

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

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.

George Vecsey

Every championship, by definition, is historic.

George Carlin

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