Definition Quotes

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

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

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tenancy to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

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.

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

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.

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.

The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.