Quotes About Definition

There are just certain nuances of the game that cannot be defined by stats and that's why you can't rely on them. That's why Popeye Jones was Charles Barkley's biggest headache, not Kevin McHale. That's why Big Country Reeves is the guy who ate Shaquille O'Neal alive.

It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Lexicographers are language reporters.

There are almost as many definitions of co-dependency as there are experiences that represent it.

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.

I don't like to define myself as necessarily conservative. What is it to be a conservative? What is it to be a Republican, even?

The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.

I don't understand the word 'hunk.'

It was important to me that Beau and Hunter felt our family was whole, and that meant we got to define our relationship, not anyone else.

People around me called me an idol, so that's what I was.

To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.

It's hard for me to assess what I brought because each time you pick up a camera and point it at a person, you're trying to define that person so to talk generally is difficult because I have to think of a given image in order to conjure up what we're talking about.

Funk could very easily be called jazz, but you call it funk. Does that really matter? People dig that they associate themselves with certain genres, but the genres to me are made up things, like an imaginary world.

It's something I've enjoyed since being a kid, the fantasy of it, the imagining I'm someone other than who I am. I've always felt claustrophobic in one sense of identity. If anything, I've had to work to develop a sense of my own identity. I used to really hate it when people defined me.

The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.

Certainly for me, as an astrobiologist, science fiction has played an important role. One of the quandaries of our field is that we are trying to study and search for something - life - that we can't define in a rigorous way. We only have one example of a biosphere, so we can't really give a good definition.

Asylum under the traditional definition doesn't necessarily include people coming here for economic reasons, but I think one of the biggest things we need to do is expand legal immigration so people can do that legally.

As soon as you create something you create a boundary.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you have tried to make it precise.

Words were so puzzling. Present should mean a present just as attack should mean to stick tacks in people.

Use Error is defined as a "user action or lack of user action while using the medical device that leads to a different result than that intended by the manufacturer or expected by the user

Time will become as famous as place. There will be time-tourists sitting around saying, "Yeah, but have you ever been to April fourth? Man!" My life has gotten just a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just discontinuous overload.