My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I think when I started to write 'The Mysterious Benedict Society' that I had that kind of thing in mind - the… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Don't strive for somebody else's notion of perfection. It's an unattainable and ultimately ridiculous goal. Strive instead to be uniquely yourself and… — Meredith Vieira Copy Share Image
Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
We are dealing with a yet unrecognized level of consciousness, independent of man but closely linked to the earth.... I do not… — Jacques Vallee Copy Share Image
If we give up the notion that everybody’s life is perfect but ours, we would be a lot happier. Nobody’s life is… — Joy Browne Copy Share Image
As for the imperialist countries, we should unite with their peoples and strive to coexist peacefully with those countries, do business with… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong.… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
It's somewhat disquieting that the same parents and educators who are horrified by the notion of child soldiers have bestowed upon 'The… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
I began to research the concept of dimensionality from the point of view of quality, and not just quantity, as a mathematician… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone would argue with the notion that there have been serious abuses on Wall Street. — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
Truth revealed from heaven is worth more than all the notions of men. — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion… — Garth Fagan Copy Share Image
Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Practice can be stated very simply. It is moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
I think most generations tend to learn the lesson of war the hard way. There is a deep attraction to the empowerment.… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The core belief that drives terrorism is the notion of a "holy place," along with the idea that some people belong there… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
The other thing that's useful for me is this notion of the absolute versus the relative:if we walk out and it's a… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
