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I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

Ajay Naidu

Theatre, Definitions, Paint

The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.

Adam Carolla

Definitions, Definition Of Beauty

Interview with Robert Miles, www.esquire.com. February 11, 2007.

Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.

Aaron Allston

Definitions, Pay

My definition of fake news is a content-like object that is a story, an article, a video, a tweet that has been fabricated, completely invented out of thin air, intentionally for the purpose of misleading.

Vivian Schiller

Air, Fake, Definitions

Source: www.npr.org

And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations of their words; which settling of significations, they call definitions, and place them in the beginning of their reckoning.

Thomas Hobbes

Science, Men, Definitions

Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.109

And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

Terry Pratchett

Would Be, Definitions, Discworld

"Going Postal". Book by Terry Pratchett, en.wikiquote.org. 2004.

This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity.

Tabitha Suzuma

Beautiful, Simplicity, Definitions

Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.340, Simon and Schuster

One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.

T. E. Hulme

Philosophy, Doe, Definitions

T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.77, Psychology Press

Definition of a wanderer: a guy who's always looking beyond.

Stephen King

Guy, Definitions, Dark Tower Series

"The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla". Book by Stephen King, 2003.

I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.

Sheri S. Tepper

Definitions, Orthodoxy, Open Minded

"The Visitor". Book by Sheri S. Tepper, 2002.

Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.

Saul Bellow

Definitions, Judgment, Excuse

The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Unity, Definitions, Definition Of Beauty

"On the Principles of Genial Criticism". Essay by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1814.

It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.

Samuel Johnson

Law, Definitions, Maxims

Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.344

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

S. I. Hayakawa

People, Definitions, Noise

S. I. HAYAKAWA (1941). “LANGUAGE IN ACTION”

A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of these types, a verification condition on the antecedents and consequents.

Robert W. Floyd

Definitions, Type, Command

"Assigning Meanings to Programs". Proceedings of Symposium on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 19, p. 21, 1967.