Quotes About Definition

I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.

The art world would have you believe that anything can be art. But, of course, there's actually many things that aren't art. And we would all recognize it when it isn't.

You have five hundred Facebook 'friends'? That simply means you've redefined 'friend' to make it something like 'a contact I exchange data with'.

Words are, of themselves, meaningless. We invest them with meaning, and, over time, come to feel as if certain words mean certain things. We construct dictionaries and then think they tell us what words mean, but dictionaries are mere historical documents, museums of meaning...

Although much thought might not have gone into creating the separate state of Pakistan, considerable effort was now expended on defining, justifying, and protecting it.

Beauty is something that disappears when you try to define it.

Sufism is experience, and hence not to be defined – imprisoned – in perennial, static categories.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Drogas: fuente de la experiencia mística del ignorante.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Penitente: alguien a quien se ha incapacitado para disfrutar.

Según una definición del sufismo, este "es" vida humana.

El Sufismo es experiencia, y por lo tanto no algo a ser definido, aprisionado en categorías perennes, estáticas.

La definición de la palabra 'finalizado' es: "Esta palabra significa finalizado".

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.

I am not no swine," Archie said. He spread peanut butter on his bread, dotted it with cream cheese and jam, added a piece of ham, and finally topped it with a wedge of banana. "Because a swine is two or more pigs, and I'm only one pig." He added an olive to his masterpiece by way of garnish, and bit off a good quarter of it.

Who is formally categorised as a "skilled worker" and who gets to define what work is "skilled" - together, these are two crucial gears in the machinery of any patriarchal workplace.

I mostly believe, deep in my bones, that life is very simply beyond description; regardless of what one makes of it, life always spills over the parameters of how anyone has chosen to define it.

Names are what you can hear or see, but cannot smell or touch. I don't need a name, as name stand for things they are not, and I am what all names stand for. If you gave me a name, it would mean that we are separate, you and I, when we are not. - The Blind Girl and the Talking Moon

I am very proud of my service, and by law, I am defined as a combat veteran.

And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.

Quibbling over the definition of genocide does nothing but help obscure the long history of vicious racism and undeniable suffering of Indigenous people in this country. It's bad enough whatever you want to call it.

Peace is not a matter of prizes or trophies. It is not the product of a victory or command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement.

I don't think anyone has qualms in saying victory to the people of India. But when a political party appropriates such a slogan and says this is the definition of patriotism, those who say it are patriotic and those who don't are not patriotic, then I reject that definition.

What makes 4K so interesting is it captures lifelike cinema-quality video.

'Vietnam Veedu' is nothing if you compare Nagesh's other works. He is the definition of humor in India.