Definitions Quotes - Page 23

We feel something, and reach out for the nearest phrase or hum with which to communicate, but which fails to do justice to what has induced us to do so....We stay on the outside of our impressions, as if staring at them through a frosted window, superficially related to them, yet estranged from whatever has eluded casual definition.

The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.

I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.

Would you like to hear a nice definition of jealousy? It's the feeling that you get when someone you absolutely detest is having a wonderful time without you.

But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more

Everybody has a different definition of the good side.

I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they're preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can't be very good journalists.

No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.

I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing one thing when I'm thought to be doing another.

I can be whatever it takes to be a folksinger. Folk music to me, if we had to have a definition, is portable music. A lot of what I do is flash, gesture, athletics, but what it comes down to is getting across a melody that will help it stick to your ribs, and being able to take it from town to town.

After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions.

I don't deal with fools terribly lightly, and I think under any definition the man's a fool.

I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

Definition is the death of discovery.

I asked Chief Justice John Roberts about this definition of life - you know, what is life? The Supreme Court can't figure it out or doesn't want us to figure it out; the fact that we know that there is no life if there's no heartbeat and brainwaves.

That's the definition of popularity. Something that literally resonates with many, many people.

But to value every company as if they are the next Google, rather than valuing them all as if one of them might be, is pretty much the definition of a bubble.

Life is wild by definition. And organic existence is violent. Though I find this hard to accept. And I know it goes against the cultural grain of therapeutic smoothing so dominant in what we like to call 'cultural discourse'.

To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

This was the definition of eternity; it was the space of time devised by the Great God Om to ensure that everyone got the punishment that was due to them.

There are, almost by definition, an unlimited number of Hells - potentially at least a personal one for every living sapient being.

I think that the definition of autism is too broad. You got to remember, autism definition is a behavioral profiling.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.