Characterized Quotes

148 quotes by 144 authors

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play;… — Roy Ayers
Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change. — Harold Washington
Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may… — Matthew Arnold
Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills,… — Lyndon B. Johnson
One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without… — Criss Jami
The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment; even science… — Amos Bronson Alcott
When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any… — Ann Coulter
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. — Albert Einstein
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a… — Janet Jackson
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but… — Dalai Lama
The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions. — Audre Lorde
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real. — Carroll O'Connor
There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which… — Joyce Carol Oates
America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and… — Anna Quindlen
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it. — Georg Simmel
What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a… — James Surowiecki
We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity. — Desmond Tutu
Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple… — James D. Watson
If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism. — Douglas Rushkoff
The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as… — Douglas Adams

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