Quotes About Definitive

The truth about autobiographical songs, he realized, was that you had to make the present become the past, somehow: you had to take a feeling or a friend or a woman and turn whatever it was into something that was over, so that you could be definitive about it. You had to put it in a glass case and look at it and think about it until it gave up its meaning.

All truth claims are absolute, narrow, and exclusive.

There is something absolute in us which despises qualification.

We're going to need a definitive quantum theory of gravity, which is part of a grand unified theory - it's the main missing piece.

Laypeople want a definitive answer from the experts, but none can be had because there is not one answer but many, depending on circumstances.

I know. In fact, I am never wrong.

That no one could know for sure in those early days what the delegates really had in mind—or even had said—did nothing to stop those in favor and those opposed from issuing definitive judgments as to the intent of the framers and its effect on the nation.

The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.

It's all a progression towards hopefully one day making a record that can be the definitive you can offer. Some bands come in with that at first, and the great bands never really stray from that. I want to earn my stripes.

A film seeking to create change on a difficult issue should not try to provide a definitive historical overview, nor present an op-ed style argument.

The Running Athlete, the definitive radiographic analysis of every conceivable running injury.

Agnès se tourne vers moi. Ses yeux sont vert émeraude. Vert ne s'accorde pas avec yeux mais avec émeraude et se met donc au singulier. Son regard ainsi parfaitement accordé m'oblige à baisser le mien. Lâche, tu es lâche, Frédéric. Oui, mais il y a entre nous un enfant mort. Au singulier. Définitivement.

The verdict of the world is conclusive.

My hair has always been a definitive part of my personal style, so I love being part of a campaign that celebrates hair as a form of expression.

Well, that obviously wasn't good enough. Not by a long shot. Saying period at the end of something doesn't make it incontrovertible.

I think any writer coming on to 'Batman' should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to them. Whatever they think that symbol or character can say.

The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be.

The theatrical versions are the definitive versions. I regard the extended cuts as being a novelty for the fans that really want to see the extra material.

Corresponding to the image of a monotheistic God is monogamous marriage. Marriage based on exclusive and definitive love becomes the icon of the relationship between God and his people and vice versa.

We had felt no joy in seeing Viena undone and the Germans broken, but rather anguish. Not compassion, but a larger anguish, which was mixed up with our own misery, with the heavy threatening sensation of an irreparable and definitive evil, which was present everywhere. Nestling like gangrene in the guts of Europe and the world. The seed of future harm.

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

There's more than one answer to these questions Pointing me in a crooked line. And the less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine.

What's definitive is always calm, because it is detached from time.

There's no such thing as mostly. It's either true or it ain't.