Definite Quotes

423 Definite quotes by 340 unique authors

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses,… — Helmut Newton
Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for… — Rene Descartes
There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music. — Paul Oakenfold
A Mantra is composed of certain letters arranged in definite sequence of sounds, of which the letters are the representative signs. To produce the designed… — Sir John Woodroffe
For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get… — Oren Peli
I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can… — Michael Polanyi
There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types. — John Romero
There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you… — Paullina Simons
There is a definite way to do this. There is a training program that you will go through and it's delightful. It's absolutely beautiful. — Frederick Lenz
Based on mixtures of the three primary colours, along with black and white, I come up with a certain number of possible colours and, by… — Gerhard Richter
Look at airport security now. What started out as definite racial profiling is now where the computer picks a name. That's why you get a… — Robin Williams
The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed — Adolf Hitler
The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot… — Hermann von Helmholtz
We have now got what seems to be definite proof that an X ray which spreads out in a spherical form from a source as… — Henry Moseley
The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases,… — Adolf Hitler
We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant… — Asa Gray
The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution… — Maurice Nicoll
I have tried to make all my acts and commercial moves the result of definite consideration and sound judgment. There were never any great ventures… — Marshall Field
Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn't anything… — Cat Cora
Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream. — Jacques Audiard
You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's… — Neve Campbell
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. — Lascelles Abercrombie
In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's… — Peter Ackroyd
But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction… — Samuel Alexander
Anaximenes ... also says that the underlying nature is one and infinite ... but not undefined as Anaximander said but definite, for he identifies it… — Theophrastus

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