Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by…

Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.

— Mortimer Collins

The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student…

— Alan Dundes

“Not to burst your preconceived notions of me, but do I look like I care?”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

— Mandy Moore

I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly…

— Michel de Montaigne

Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“Oh, they weren't notions like yours, they were notions like mine, all spasm, sweat and trembling, without an atom of common sense or lucidity.…

— Samuel Beckett

'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions…

— Larenz Tate

Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested beings who need to be…

— Paul Bloom

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained…

— Lawrence Summers

“notions we used to titillate ourselves with. It”

— Margaret Atwood

I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going…

— Magda Apanowicz

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre that people…

— Mandy Moore

... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand.

— Saunders Mac Lane

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though…

— Rosemary Mahoney