Clear Quote by Flann O'Brien

I don't pay attention to definitions or titles or try to fit within them.

— Mya

Odd that we think definitions are definitive.

— Larry Wall

You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

— Jane Austen

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

— Michael Tippett

Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

If people think they can elicit from me whatever terms they want, they are mistaken.

— Ivanka Trump

I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was.

— Mitt Romney

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

— Anonymous

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

— Aristotle

It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.

— Horace

Have no discrepancy between what you say, what you are and what you do.

— Dalai Lama