Quotes About Definition

Have I told you kids what Aethon means?" They shake their heads; he writes ????? across an entire sheet of paper. "Blazing," he says. "Burning, fiery. Some say it can mean hungry too.

Over time his images of the baby, like photographs handled too often, had worn down and creased, lost their definition.

A man is not defined but un-defined by autonomy: he loses his skin.

The statesman and moralist Cato the Censor defined an orator as "a good man skilled in speech.

If you've ever read the French philosopher Alain Badiou, you'll know that he defines jokes as a type of rupture that opens up truths.

I understand it for marketing purposes, but I've always hated defining myself with a genre. Nothing feels broad enough.

My life and career is defined by the constant pursuit of new forms of culture and self-expression.

Well, I feel that the pursuit of trying to know who God is, and trying to be known by God, can be lost in religion. Because religion, all that it is, is man's attempt to try to put a definition on something that is very hard to define.

There's so many things that people do on a daily basis that they do as a way of defining who they are. But really, what defines who you are is when circumstances push you to the edge.

It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of is it's music where a lot of different elements are played at the same time. The harmonic, the melodic... You're pushing the boundaries on every level. That could be true of rhythm and blues as well. I'm a musician.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

Defining something being a Fleetwood Mac song is calling it a Fleetwood Mac song, you know? Nothing becomes Fleetwood Mac until that's what you call it.

The reality is we are all about servicing people and helping them achieve their dream, follow their journey and define their own success. When that is 100% authentic that flows through everything we do and translates.

What makes one type of music classical and one bluegrass and one folk - these things aren't what's important.

I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.

Our founders thought long and hard about what the office of president should be. George Washington resisted the role, and then defined it.

Eyebrows are the framework for the entire face.

If you are four you are four

Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition.

If we deny the need for thought, Moneo, as some do, we lose the powers of reflection; we cannot define what our senses report. If we deny the flesh, we unwheel the vehicle which bears us. But if we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe. It was emotions which I missed the most.

Lady Jessica ordered you to differentiate between the wolf and the dog, between ze'ed and ke'leb. By her definition a wolf is someone with power who misuses that power. However, between wolf and dog there is a dawn period when you cannot distinguish between them.

What are they, Dad? Cows, son. What are cows, Dad? Cows are cows, son.

The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively-- because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins. You have to put a 'box' around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall?

Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.