Like all great art, it defies the tyrant Time.

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

— Nadine Gordimer

Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.

— Alice Foote MacDougall

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

— Kate Chopin

Truth defies simplicity.

— John Green

I think 'Sightseers' was a bit of an epiphany, a massive learning curve, and it gave me loads of confidence to go out there,…

— Alice Lowe

Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.

— Sharon Salzberg

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible…

— Agnes Repplier

Feminism was for women, and men never had an equivalent movement or discourse in its wake, so of course the sons of men who…

— Julie Klausner

The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.

— Robert Burns

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

— Glenn Gould

“A good story defies the reader's expectations, and in doing so, brings them satisfaction.”

— Thomas Maltman

Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.

— Jim Trelease

Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.

— Anonymous

One thing is clear: Ron Paul defies labels.

— Mark McKinnon