Define Quotes

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. (Oprah Winfrey)
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. View quote
Emil Cioran
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. View quote
Willa Cather
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. View quote
Alan Watts
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. View quote
Harvey Fierstein
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. View quote
Audre Lorde
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. (Thomas Szasz)
I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love. View quote
George Michael
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. View quote
Freda Adler
I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof. View quote
Donald Knuth
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. View quote
Edward Albee
You have to be careful who you let define your good. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define. View quote
Ani DiFranco
Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women. View quote
Rita Mae Brown
People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being. View quote
Václav Havel
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. (Bob Dylan)
You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. View quote
Paul Theroux
The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions. View quote
Tryon Edwards
Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated. View quote
John Ralston Saul