Definable Quotes

#1. The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.

Twyla Tharp

#2. As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

Steven Pinker

#3. I think anyone loves to play a character that is either evil to a certain extent or has a real definable character flaw. Those are always really fun, and, I think, funny.

Steve Carell

#4. That continuous, unnamed ache I had been living with was precise and definable now. Call it the foretaste of being hated. I knew ahead of time that if someone looked at me with hate, I would have to allow it, to swallow it, because something in me, something about me deserved it.

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

#5. And yet there was not a definable thought in his mind. Only a terrifying effort to get from one side of a match box to another.

Hubert Selby Jr.

#6. Well, our operations are definable as robbery and murder," he agreed. "Space Vikings are professional robbers and murderers.

H. Beam Piper

#7. If on the quantum level, matter is revealed to be less solid and definable than it appears, then it seems to me that science is coming closer to the Buddhist contemplative insights of emptiness and interdependence.

Dalai Lama XIV

#8. All I could see in his slightly lopsided face were his two very bright eyes, which were examining me closely without betraying any definable emotion. And I had the odd impression of being watched by myself.

Albert Camus

#9. Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.

Brian Christian

#10. I think that that's always been a real talent of mine is to be able to spot somebody who has that thing that is so non-definable, that thing that I wish I possessed.

Rosie O'Donnell

#11. Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .

Niels Bohr

#12. All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered.

Arthur C. Clarke

#14. Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

William James

#15. Illusion is whatever is fixed or definable, and reality is best understood as its negation ...

Northrop Frye

#16. How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities? ... I never feel the four walls around the substance of the self, the core. I feel only space. Illimitable space.

Anais Nin

#17. It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable ... Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass ... Music should never be harmless.

Robbie Robertson

#18. It is that the individual has within him or herself vast resources for self-understanding, for altering the self-concept basic attitudes, and his or her self-directed behavior - and that these resources can be tapped if only a definable climate of facilitative psychological attitudes can be provided

Carl Rogers

#19. I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#20. Shaunti wields the researcher's clipboard, the analyst's data, and the counselor's insight to bring the excellent newsflash that great marriages are the culmination of definable, repetitive micromovements that add up to deep relationship satisfaction.

Anita Renfroe

#21. If I had a musical identity that was definable then it would be time to get into painting or something else. Race car driving.

Chris Cornell

#22. If there really is a definable 6th sense, it would be the natural connection and the ability of communication between man and animal

Justin Southwick

#23. The trap of the self is the trap that causes unhappiness. We define ourselves too much; whereas the infinite, the pure radiant spirit, is not so definable.

Frederick Lenz

#24. Merrill Lynch is this hugely prestigious brand.

Charles Duhigg

#25. Diamonds aren't a girl's best friend. Freedom is.

Camille Grammer

#26. To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.

Irving R. Kaufman

#27. It's nice not to have to live a double life.

Lance Bass

#28. We guard the edge of the world," Dawnstripe told him. "The other Clans sit cozy in their marshes and woods, fed by the river and sheltered by our moor. They never know the true taste of the wind or the scent of first snow. There's no Clan cat faster or more nimble than a WindClan cat.

Erin Hunter

#29. To be a mass tourist, for me, ... is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.

David Foster Wallace

#30. I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it.

Tyra Banks

#31. I do all of marketing and promotion - it's the most exhaustive and rewarding part of the process and I wouldn't trade it for anything. The artist should be the person representing their brand because theyre the best person to do so.

Hoodie Allen

#32. Water is the formless potential out of which creation emerged. It is the ocean of unconsciousness enveloping the islands of consciousness. Water bathes us at birth and again at death, and in between it washes away sin. It is by turns the elixir of life or the renewing rain or the devastating flood.

Scott Sanders

#33. Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.

Andy Hargreaves

#34. The Law of Moronic Ubiquity: Anything in the universe that is generally considered to be idiot-proof will eventually be ruined by an idiot.

Ian Strang

#35. The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

Seneca The Younger

#36. I feel like a lot of funders of documentaries today want to fund films that have a social message that is going to yield results.

Marshall Curry