Top 480 Definition Quotes

What is hypertext? It is a method of giving a text more depth, structuring it, and letting the computer help you explore it. Links, like we know today – you see some blue underlined word and you click on it and it takes you somewhere else. That’s the simplest definition of hypertext.
Robert Cailliau
As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.
Billy Graham
It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G. H. Hardy
The paradoxical War on Terror is based on a kind of willed stupidity; the willed stupidity of wishful thinking. Only the logic of dreamwork can suture ‘War’ with ‘Terror’ in this way, since terrorists were, by classical definition, those without ‘legitimate authority’ to wage war.
Mark Fisher
A computer, by definition, cannot be held accountable for anything because there is no mechanism to hold it to account, short of turning off the electricity supply or destroying the hardware. Only humans can be accountable.
Mark Walport
If there’s any definition to being perfect, you’re perfect at being yourself.
Zendaya
There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
Jose Bergamin
Seriously, I was the wrong fit at ESPN. Definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Jason Whitlock
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
John Henry Newman
I don’t think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.
Hillary Clinton
The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
Jean Baudrillard
Any conversation which does not include the context of the journey of the heart is by definition untrue to who we are as human beings.
Marianne Williamson
Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don’t think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.
Edward Felten
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That’s different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.
Chinua Achebe
I have a weird definition of family; it’s not the same as everyone else’s.
Lil Peep
I think maybe even one of the reasons I became an actor was actually to hide. I mean, it sounds paradoxical because, of course, people are standing up in a public place and encouraging other people to look at them. So that’s not the conventional definition of hiding.
Hugh Laurie
There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that’s the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
J. Michael Straczynski
When you say ‘fear of the unknown’, that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it’s genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we’re not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
M. Night Shyamalan
Isn’t that the definition of a star? Someone who can get a film made?
Bruce Robinson
Relative poverty acknowledges that the definition of po

Relative poverty acknowledges that the definition of poverty should move with the times.
Carrie Lam
Money doesn’t make me tick. This definition of success doesn’t make me tick. Managing some of the biggest stars in the world doesn’t make me tick. Making my family proud makes me tick.
Troy Carter
By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it’s a waste of our students’ time to subject them to it.
Lawrence M. Krauss
By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.
Felicity Huffman
My definition of an executive’s job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.
James Cash Penney
There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help.
Steve Perry
I am my own person with my own experiences, personality, and definition of success.
Ananya Birla
Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.
Dave Reichert
We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but I see no sign that we are moving towards a world order in my definition of it – namely, a system which is accepted, which is internalized by the majority of the key participants.
Henry Kissinger
Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
Neal Boortz
I believe that the definition of marriage is between one man and one woman from a religious aspect. That is my belief. I have stated that. I always have believed that.
Kim Reynolds
‘Dystopian,’ by definition, promises a darker story.
Lauren DeStefano
If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won’t exclude anyone.
Jack Kingston
My definition of freedom is still ruled by the reluctance to live a conventional life, from Emilio Salgari’s pirates.
Alvaro Enrigue
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
Andrew Wiles
At the Superdome, a young man came up to me holding a baby. He’d run out of diapers. He’d run out of medicine. His baby was sick. The guy’s saying, ‘Help me! Take my baby.’ What could I do? That’s the definition of helpless.
Ray Nagin
There is that definition of leadership that says, ‘Leadership is convincing people to do things that they otherwise wouldn’t have done because you’ve made them believe it’s the right thing to do.’ And a great speech can do that.
Jon Lovett
Until we take seriously God’s definition of the church and stop just ‘having church,’ we will not see transformation in our society.
Tony Evans
I’m a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.
Rachel Zoe
I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, lost in the moment and forgot the time, whether was conversation, movie, or a game I was playing. That was my definition of happiness. And I was least happy when I was all over the place, distracted and restless.
Pico Iyer
The term ‘innovative’ or ‘innovation’ is often vague or ambiguous. But in our definition, innovation means to make something which people think impossible possible.
Satoru Iwata
A large plurality of the Trump electorate believed the definition of ‘conservative’ was simply ‘Not Hillary.’
Rick Wilson
On their debut, Korn brought a new definition of metal that was a game changer.
Rob Halford
Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don’t enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn’t enjoy Vegas, I love having lived there.
J. R. Moehringer
All theater is unpredictable. That’s the definition of theater.
Janet McTeer
That seems to be the definition of ‘novel’ for me: a story that hasn’t yet discovered a way to be brief.
George Saunders
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal
I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don’t go down dark alleys, but if you’re making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation.
Doug Liman
If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‘humble,’ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.
Kanye West
Expand the definition of ‘reading’ to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It’s the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won’t read shark books forever.
Jon Scieszka
By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
Malcolm Boyd
I think success has a different definition for everyone

I think success has a different definition for everyone.
Radhika Apte
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don’t lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won’t stand up either.
Evan Esar
I’ve always believed in expanding the definition of what a Marvel Studios movie could be.
Kevin Feige
Professional services industries like finance, consulting, and legal services are, by definition, meta-industries. That is, they serve to help large companies raise money, buy and sell each other, reorganize, implement new systems, conduct complex transactions, and so forth.
Andrew Yang
But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is – if you are not around that environment, then you’ll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that.
Dennis Brown
I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.
Jane Asher