Definition Quotes

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.

Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.

Well, fluffy shirts are, by definition, very comfortable.

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tenancy to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.