450 Quotes About Definitions

Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others.

By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.

and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . .

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism, let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than, quite simply, to be at all times caught in the dominant forms of the moment.

art, n. This word has no definition.

Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.