(320 quotes found)
“An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.”
William G. Golding
“It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.”
Elizabeth II
“I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.”
Umberto Eco
“My subject enlarges itself, becomes methodized and define, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it, like a fine picture or a beautiful statute, at a glance.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.”
John Archibald Wheeler
“Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.”
Mary Catherine Bateson
“The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined by what he chooses to do with his life, not by what happens to him.”
Clay Aiken
“It is a way of defining turf-a sonic turf.”
Thomas H. Fay
“What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.”
Walter Lippmann
“He who defines duty for himself is his own master.”
Dick Cheatham
