Zitat des Tages über Definition:
If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.
Artists are, I think in general, compassionate people, and part of what makes us artists is that we're open-minded people, and I think we're almost, by definition, progressive in a lot of ways.
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.
What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.
If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.
Family is such a fundamental part of Islam, and women run the family. I had to force myself not to impose my own definition of political and social freedom on women in Islam, and approach each story objectively.
Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.
By definition, when you make something no one hates, no one loves it.
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.
The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore.
With its fluctuating forms and needless decoration, fashion epitomizes the supposedly unproductive waste that inspired 20th-century technocrats to dream of central planning. It exists for no good reason. But that's practically a definition of art.
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
I naively thought that we could have a molecular definition for life, come up with a set of genes that would minimally define life. Nature just refuses to be so easily quantified.
In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren't careers supposed to culminate in a role like that? And because I'm a big fat geek, as long as there's stuff I'm excited about - and isn't that really the definition of geek? - there'll always be roles I'd love to play.
My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.
My wife Lorrie actually looked in the dictionary to see what the definition was of heroism because it had been used so much. She found at least one definition is someone who chooses to put themselves at risk to save another.
I lived near Santa Cruz for ten years, and the whole time, it bothered me what an exclusionary definition of 'inclusion' was in force. Social censure was applied to those who expressed unpopular or uncomfortable ideas.
Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
A romance is a courtship story. In the 19th century, the definition of the romance genre was an escape from daily life that included adventure and love and battle. But in the 20th century, that term changed, and now it's deemed only a love story, specifically a courtship story.
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
The conventional definition of reality, and the idea of 'normal life', mean nothing.
There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.
Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.
