Quotes About Definition

what are you? he asked. I'm a waitress.

The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can't talk anymore, you have to sing. The emotion isn't strong enough when you're just like, 'Let's take a second to sing about lamps!'

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.

If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis.

The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.... And, on the contrary, metaphors, and senseless ambiguous words are like ignes fatui; and reasoning upon them is wandering amongst innumerable absurdities.

But admiration and sadness, admiration and worry, is not that almost a definition of love? There are people with whom it is not easy to live, but whom it is impossible to leave.

Aimer... aimer... Qu'est-ce que c'est? Qa manque de définition, ce mot-là. Was der eine hat, liebt der andere, comme nous Allemands disons proverbialment.

I still don't even know for sure what a tendril is.

Names by themselves may be empty, but the act of naming.

Today, poverty in America means whatever government statisticians in Washington say it means.

One of the main problems of price control is to define the appropriate price of what is being controlled

Uno de los principales problemas del control de precios es el de definir el precio adecuado de lo que se está controlando

Hope. What really is the definition? Never stop believing.

It seems perverse to define intelligence as including rationality when no existing IQ test measures any such thing!

850 square feet. It's what forced the Bowmans and everyone else on the Avenues outside. And it was these outdoor spaces—not the closed-in world of flats and row houses of Verdun—that defined them.

The quickest way to demonstrate the sheer symbolicity of the negative is to look at any object, say, a table, and to remind yourself that, though it is exactly what it is, you could go on for the rest of your life saying all the things that it is not. "It is not a book, it is not a house, it is not Times Square," etc., etc.

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

REPORTER: Thank you, sir. A simple question. GEORGE W. BUSH: Yes. It may require a simple answer. REPORTER: What's your definition of the word "torture"? GEORGE W. BUSH: Of what? REPORTER: The word "torture." What's your definition? GEORGE W. BUSH: That's defined in U.S. law, and we don't torture. REPORTER: Can you give me your version of it, sir? GEORGE W. BUSH: Whatever the law says.

Even the most carefully defined philosophical or mathematical concept, which we are sure does not contain more than we have put into it, is nevertheless more than we assume. It is a psychic event and as such partly unknowable. The very numbers you use in counting are more than you take them to be. They are at the same time mythological elements (for the Pythagoreans, they were even divine); but you are certainly unaware of this when you use numbers for a practical purpose.

I have therefore defined sensation as perception through conscious sensory processes, and intuition as perception by way of unconscious contents and connections.

As long as concepts are identical with mere words, the variation is almost imperceptible and plays no practical role. But when an exact definition or a careful explanation is needed, one can occasionally discover the most amazing variations, not only in the purely intellectual understanding of the term, but particularly in its emotional tone and its application. As a rule, these variations are subliminal and therefore never realized.

is the story of how family defines and binds us, and how, ultimately, loyalty can be a curse.