Definitions Quotes · Page 10

My definition of beauty is something between extremely ugly and extremely fantastic.

— Riccardo Tisci

My definition of a good hotel is a place I'd stay at.

— Robert De Niro

There is no final stage in nirvana. Nirvana is beyond definition. It is not quantifiable.

— Frederick Lenz

I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.

— Donald Knuth

The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

— Seth Godin

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

— Ralph Ellison

My definition of success is "the fulfillment of your soul's purpose."

— Jack Canfield

'Dystopian,' by definition, promises a darker story.

— Lauren DeStefano

You want to know my definition of gun control? Being able to stand there at 25 meters and put two rounds in…

— Jesse Ventura

Nobody has ever been able to define Jazz satisfactorily. This is probably because anyone who was capable of doing so never really…

— Mary Kingsley

In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

— Rafael Vinoly

...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican…

— Alben W. Barkley

I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.

— Gary Bauer

Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of…

— Perry Anderson

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

— Madame de Stael

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being,…

— Marcel Duchamp

The poor lack money. They lack money because they do not know the secret of productive wealth. They know it is possible…

— Louis O. Kelso

I have a fairly strict definition of early infantile autism. That is not to say that people who don't meet that classic…

— Darold Treffert

And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It…

— Kurt Vonnegut

We can safely say, therefore, that whereas some moralists may find it possible to make a distinction between two spheres and reigns-one…

— Joseph Campbell

At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in…

— Alberto Manguel

I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of…

— George McGovern

When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying…

— Tim Reid

My definition of learning is to remember what you are interested in. If you don't remember something, you haven't learned it, and…

— Richard Saul Wurman

I never think in terms of alienation; it's the others who do. Alienation means one thing to Hegel, another to Marx and…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience…

— Pierre Bourdieu

For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng,…

— Charles Baudelaire

During the last five years, those four advantages-costs, products, people, goodwill-have been the salvation of Interface during a recession that saw our…

— Ray Anderson

Language is virtually always pathological; hence the solution is to move as fast and far as possible from language to experience, from…

— David Berman

The kiss was the definition of perfect. True, it lacked the heat, the passion, the breathlessness of the living-world kiss she had…

— Neal Shusterman

One of the things that I've learned, and I think we've all learned, is that we are not going to get the…

— Barack Obama

Immigrants who come to a country are going to lose something, for sure, but they hope to gain a great deal by…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

— Frank Dobson

“There is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.”

— Dinaw Mengestu

'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth

— William James

FEEDBACK: The inevitable result when the baby doesn't appreciate the strained carrots.

— Nikhil Saluja

Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense.

— Michio Kaku

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

— Anonymous

I don't deal with fools terribly lightly, and I think under any definition the man's a fool.

— Tony Windsor

Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous.

— Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville