Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism. ' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation. ' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism. ' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy.
My line of vision was such that the creature filled the moon like a fossil. It had gone there, I thought, to live and die, for there, of all places, was its small definition made whole and eternal
[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.
I think we try to box and put God in some limited definition, which is impossible.
Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good functional definition of faith. Faith prays, unbelief does not.
The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values.
My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.
I'm the true definition of a workaholic.
That's his definition of mercy. This is the year of the Mercy Jubilee of the pope. I know that he's against abortion, but he talks about Christ's emphasis on mercy instead of his emphasis on judgment. He talks about the lack of Christian charity and the pride that are afloat in our world these days in terms of making moral judgments on other people. That's really it for Willie. He's really a missionary.
I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.
I'm interested in ordinary experience, and regardless of the precise definition of ordinary, and I've found that in so-called ordinary experience, there is as much comedy, tragedy, sadness, as there is in great drama. And I don't invent it, I recognize it.
The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.
My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.
The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.
You existed. You existed now as a fractal. Definition: A fractal is generally a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be broken into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole. Maybe I was a fractal. Maybe the photographer was a fractal. Maybe we were all fractals.
My definition of bad-ass is that I'm a force of nature and true spirit. I'm self-admitting that, and it sounds vain to say that, but I am.
A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.