We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways:… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
We shouldn't get hung up on the questions we can't answer because life, by definition, is confusing. We're never going to have… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
Pedagogically, we need definitions and borders. They help us get our heads around what we're talking about. — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religion.… — Victoria Glendinning Copy Share Image
The true God is not a form idealized; he/she/it is real and therefore, by definition, imperfect; only an abstraction can be free… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what… — Diane Sawyer Copy Share Image
My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel. — Sharon Tate Copy Share Image
Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Anarchism is for liberty, and neither for nor against anything else. Anarchy is the mother of co-operation, yes, just as liberty is… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't… — Tony Hsieh Copy Share Image
Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
My nephew has HDADHD. High Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. He can barely pay attention, but when he does it's unbelievably clear. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I turned to the Times crossword puzzle and asked Kate, “What’s the definition of a moderate Arab?” “I don’t know.” “A guy… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw,… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
I think the connection between poetry and theology, which is profound in Western tradition - there is a great deal of wonderful… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying. — Jim Broadbent Copy Share Image
