Definitions Quotes

DROOLING: How teething babies wash their chins.

— Nikhil Saluja

Odd that we think definitions are definitive.

— Larry Wall

The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.

— Rick Yancey

Empathy cannot by definition oppress anyone.

— Simon Baron-Cohen

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it

— Saul Williams

PREPARED CHILDBIRTH: A contradiction in terms.

— Nikhil Saluja

I played teen roles until high definition came out.

— Selma Blair

Language is a form of organized stutter.

— Marshall McLuhan

I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.

— Michael Cunningham

DEFENCE: What you'd better have around de yard if you're going to let de children play outside.

— Nikhil Saluja

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

— Lee Harvey Oswald

Somebody who is unique - and this will get me into trouble - by definition cannot be replaced.

— Martin Sorrell

My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.

— Kinky Friedman

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.

— Peter Drucker

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

— Peter L. Berger

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

— Alvin Toffler

I know it sounds weird, but my definition of 'sexy' has changed as I've gotten older. And being smart and informed makes…

— Sarah Shahi

The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.

— Mircea Eliade

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

— Barry Sonnenfeld

If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women.

— Mahatma Gandhi

That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.

— Frederick C. Beiser

Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

For Builders, the real definition of success is a life and work that brings personal fulfillment and lasting relationships and makes a…

— Jerry I. Porras

There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I…

— Terry Pratchett

I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults.…

— Peter Drucker

My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by…

— Isaac Newton

There's no scientific definition. A hymn... is a song of praise to God. I think there were three real goals with our…

— Keith Getty

I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to…

— George Carlin

When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I…

— Malala Yousafzai

Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person…

— Evelyn Underhill

I got a job at Metro and went in to see Louis Mayer, who told me he wanted me to be a…

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible…

— Anonymous

Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupationshave ceased…

— Gilbert Adair

How can we appraise a proposal if the terms hurled at our ears can mean anything or nothing, and change their significance…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and…

— Malaclypse the Younger

To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over...…

— William James

How strange that excision – female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation – of little…

— Michel Onfray

Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have…

— Tana French

As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If…

— Sam Harris