Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making…

When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who…

— Christopher Reeve

The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is…

— Norman Cousins

Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues…

— Larry Coryell

But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if…

— Dennis Brown

The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]…

— Carl Jung

Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to…

— Emma Donoghue

my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.

— Clare Boothe Luce

He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that…

— Irvine Welsh

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

— Brian Aldiss

Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul…

— Richard Eberhart

Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,…

— James Madison

“I'm going to use them to track him down and thwart him." "Thwart?" Sarissa asked. "Thwart." I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something…

— Jim Butcher

A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material, and purpose.…

— Eliot Noyes

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the…

— Richard Whately