Definitions Quotes - Page 32

Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making people happy.

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there.

Let him tell us he's never been hurt, but that's the definition of getting hurt.

Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.

Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

art, n. This word has no definition.

The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.

David Foster Wallace was a brilliant experimentalist who I deeply admire. His ability to do formalism helped me understand how to tackle stories like "Dictionary" and "Failed Revolution." "Dictionary," in particular, functions against narrative in many ways - each of the definitions are their own mini-story or prose poem, and the collection of them adds up to create a different effect than the traditional Freytagian Pyramid story.

I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.

Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.

Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed - just in the last 5 years.