Definition Quotes

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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.

I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.

A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

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

Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.

That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.

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

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.

A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.