Definite Quotes

We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.

There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic.

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

I can give you a definite perhaps.

Our live show is a definite experience, since it's an extension of my albums.

A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.