Definitive Quotes
When is definitive actually earned?
One filmmaker recalls a movie as the definitive turning point of their career, watched dozens of obsessive times. See Character quotes for related reflection.
'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the...
Many young people now end a discussion with the supposedly definitive and unanswerable statement that such is their opinion, and their opinion is just as valid as anyone else's. The fact is that our opinion on an infinitely large number...
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Of course I would disagree that there's a definitive science that has concluded that mankind has turned the earth's thermostat up and that we can turn the earth's thermostat down at will, we just haven't yet found the will. That's...
I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and I really know who I am now. There was a long period like I was...
Always Quotes
Yahoo is still in many ways the definitive brand of the consumer Internet, but I don't think they can or should compete with Google any longer. That game is over.
Around A.D. 930, the sages in Tiberias assembled all 24 holy books and completed the writing of the codex, the first definitive Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible. From Tiberias, the codex was taken to Jerusalem.
We've got a daunting enough task to provide a definitive account of what happened in 9/11, without fear or favor, something that will last and will survive criticism over time. And we think we can do that with integrity in...
Don Juan's story can have no end, and that, on my word, is the definitive and true story of 'Don Juan.'
I've always been of the party that rubbished the idea of a definitive account of somebody's life.
Character Quotes
If I wait for the great definitive story of my people to come around, I'm never going to work.
To Catholic, Orthodox, and some Protestant Christians, communion involves partaking of the physical real presence of God in the bread and wine of the Eucharist. By contrast, the Torah draws the Jew into engagement with God's infinite mind. Torah learning...
No wishes are silly, no dreams remain dreams, for those committed to clear and definitive goals.
Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.
History does not produce definitive answers for all time. It is a process.
End Quotes
I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do...
We're going to need a definitive quantum theory of gravity, which is part of a grand unified theory - it's the main missing piece.
After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion.
There is no definitive guidebook on how to pick the right partner, and even if there were, I'm way too dumb to write it.
A film seeking to create change on a difficult issue should not try to provide a definitive historical overview, nor present an op-ed style argument.
Life Quotes
The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.
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Another warns that calling an opinion definitive does not make it true, just because someone insists it is as valid as any other. Explore Life quotes too.
