Defying Quotations

I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress.

The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents.

When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

The positive and negative indications right now are that Milosevic has made a half compromise and he is still defying the will of the international community on other issues,

I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

Mugabe has pushed his luck too far in terms of fighting the world. There's no way a country can live as an island and the fact that he's been defying both national and international opinion has had an effect on the general feelings within ZANU-PF,

If they're defying authority in regards to this immigration protest, they're going to be suspended, regardless of their ethnic background.

I look to him as the ultimate example of defying the odds.

He is defying his opponents by saying 'while you guys are singing and dancing, I have a business to run'.

I think there's an urgent need for both the administration and Congress to face hard reality and not continue with budget policies based on . . . defying the laws of fiscal gravity.

It was never my direct intention to do anything particularly medium-defying.

We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community.

The story of 2005 was the dollar defying an overwhelmingly bearish consensus. The dollar has little to fear from a slowdown in U.S. consumption growth as this will eventually lead to an improved external trade position.

Sometimes, impossibility isn't about defying reason, but simply lack of willingness to believe in otherwise.

Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will.

The buyers are defying chart patterns, particularly on the big three, BHP, Rio and Woodside - they're just bludgeoning them through any resistance.

This is supposed to be a whale sanctuary and the Japanese government is the only one in the world which is defying the ban on whaling here.

also means defying the powerful forces inside and outside our country.

This president has a real pattern of defying conventional wisdom.

The report illustrates the fact that housing is not defying gravity and is not likely to do so this year. We're going to see chipping away of housing.

It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America.

If Koizumi wins, his party is not going to be the old LDP, ... Koizumi has become able to call the shots and in the future, no matter who is prime minister, the back benchers will be hesitant about defying policy made by the leadership.

I paint paintings because I can't get the experience in any other way but there are many more experiences that are equally satisfying to me and equally inept at answering all my questions, but hover in exactitude in describing themselves and defying me to define their logic.

In respect to Iraq, Saddam is defying every one of us, ... He questions our resolve and is gambling we will lose nerve rather than enforce our will.

I hope before too long to be sharing news of my good health and recovery, ... Now, more than ever, I feel Chris with me as I face this challenge. As always, I look to him as the ultimate example of defying the odds with strength, courage, and hope in the face of life's adversities.

In my mid-twenties, I said to myself: 'I can't perform anymore!' I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't perform for a while, then ended up doing a one-woman show about Gilda Radner having cancer. It was called 'Gilda Defying Gravity,' and I did it on the Lower East Side. It was great; people really came out and supported me.

Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, film has been a shadow thrown over the minds of all novelists. Ever since, novelists have strained to make themselves more relevant and, whether consciously or not, novel-writing has been influenced by cinematic doctrines - by turns, embracing and defying it.

By engaging in this illegal protest they are sanctioning an illegal strike that is undermining the rule of law by openly defying our province's highest legal authority, the B.C. Supreme Court.

I keep defying the odds, you know.

Surprise comes from defying expectations.

the ultimate example of defying the odds with strength, courage and hope.

These kinds of characters are so satisfying to male viewers because culture has told them to be powerful and effective and to get things done, and at the same time they're living, operating and working in places that are constantly defying that.

I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.

All of the news we got today was negative and the market was defying it ... the news was atrocious today,

The market staged a smart rally in the last few sessions, defying expectations of a correction at higher levels mainly on account of large-scale investments by fund operators.

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy.