Quotes About Definition

Above and beyond their primal concern with security, different states define their interests in different ways.

To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made.

Lexicographer—A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

Know then this journey seeks to define ends, seeks shores where farther oceans start; caged by the over-muscled heart, we are trapped in that bright moment where we learned our doom, but still we struggle, knowing, too, that freedom is imposed the very moment when the trap springs...

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in their best order.

Name is a fence and within it you are nameless.

The Glaswegian definition of an atheist: a bloke who goes to a Rangers-Celtic match to watch the football.

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

La señora López Mateos le confirió al papel de la primera dama su definición, sus características y su profesionalismo.

For the past few years I've been on a quest to find a good definition of the imagination. To begin with, the task is rendered difficult by the general suspicion on the part of many decent Muggles1 that the imagination—loosely understood as the image-making faculty—is somehow evil or at least something we're supposed to grow out of.

The Constitution is what the judges say it is, every time.

Once established, a successful style looks like an inevitability - maybe that's the definition of a successful style - but there's often the time when it looks like anything but.

Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.

The most important time in history is - NOW - the present, So count your blessings cause time can't define the essence.

Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

You can not define being exactly on time.

Time is the central mystery of our existence. It confines and defines us in many ways.

Met de komst van de woorden verliezen we het oorspronkelijke gevoel, dacht ze. Het geeft een veilig gevoel, dat is waar. Alleen de dingen die een naam hebben gekregen, worden werkelijk voor ons. Werkelijk en begrensd.

extremes—whether good or bad—don't fit into society's definition of normality

To condescend effectively it is clearly necessary to adhere to a narrow definition of relevant data.

Delusion is the mind's tendency to seek premature closure about something. It is the quality of mind that imposes a definition on things and then mistakes the definition for the actual experience.

I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.

You're crazy, Ludovico announced. Alessandro held his finger in the air. Ah! he said, but at least I'm able to tell you my last name, and at least, when they take me out to the stake my dreams may be just beginning, whereas yours, by your own definition, must and will come to a dark end. You fool yourself. Your illusions will fall away even before the end. They won't do you any good. You'll see.