Definition Quotes - page 7

Self-esteem can be so exhausting. I want to cut my hair, change my clothes, erase the pimple from the near-tip of my nose, and strengthen my upper-arm definition, all in the next hour. (David Levithan)
If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it. View quote
David Levithan
With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition. View quote
George Michael
Life is a reaching out for something or someone. That is its definition. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes. View quote
Caroline Knapp
I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through. View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
doesn't really fit the definition of banter, now does it? View quote
Lilith Saintcrow
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it. View quote
Wendell Berry
I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it. View quote
Glen Duncan
I mean, the first "Back to the Future” is kind of a perfect script, I think. In terms of handling time travel the best, it depends on your definition. To me, that means it effectively uses it in the story. View quote
Rian Johnson
By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average. (James C. Collins)
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, anymore than anything else important in life can be proved. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven. So you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the cost of belonging is worth it. View quote
Gregory Maguire
The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas. View quote
Malcolm McDowell
Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks. View quote
Pat Barker
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. View quote
Paul Rand
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. View quote
A. R. Ammons
My definition of sexy is someone who is expressing themselves honestly. View quote
Alex Meraz
Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination. View quote
Ally Sheedy
I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive. View quote
Andrew Bird
The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before. (Asa Gray)
I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far. View quote
Ajay Naidu
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution. View quote
Barbara Deming
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue. View quote
Benjamin Haydon
A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult. View quote
Clyde Edgerton