Definers Quotes

#1. To return to the moment of radical innocence. To paint. To stretch canvas. To find the point of originality. It wasn't a hippie idea. Both of us always hated the hippies, their flowers, their poems, their one idea. We were the furthest thing from hippies. We were the edge, the definers.

Colum McCann

#2. What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

Toni Morrison

#3. Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

Toni Morrison

#4. Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.

Toni Morrison

#5. You are a creator of content, a wizard of words. They need you. Act like it.

Jeff Goins

#6. Not only did I change city and country, but also all the people. If this might seem strange, it is even stranger that I hardly ever reflect on it. How did I end up here? Why did things turn out like this?

Karl Ove Knausgard

#7. The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#8. Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.

Sai Baba

#9. Years ago, after I'd answered several questions from a group of teens, one of them asked how I could stay optimistic and keep on going. I answered that instead of getting sad, I get mad.

Jayni Chase

#10. If you do a smoky eye, chances are you will not want to do a strong lip as well. It's never good to gild the lily.

Brad Goreski