A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
Walter Lang

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.
Sandy Koufax

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.
Lee Harvey Oswald

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.
Benjamin Tucker

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
Benjamin Haydon

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
Ani DiFranco

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.
Myriam Miedzian

But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali

But Hezbollah now has reared its ugly head in a way that threatens the entire free world. And they want, by their own charter and definition, the destruction of Israel and Christians. That is the truth. That is in their charter.
Zach Wamp

But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more.
William Barclay

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.
Frank Black

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

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
Barry Sonnenfeld

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert Camus

By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.
Jason Bateman

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
Malcolm Boyd