Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ernst Mayr

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Gloria Feldt

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

George Vecsey

Every championship, by definition, is historic.

Robert Burns

Mankind is a science that defies definitions.

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