Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years. — Joy Browne Copy Share Image
What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to,… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
What is "credibility"? It's a very familiar notion. It's basically the notion that is central to the Mafia. So suppose say the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When it comes to police officers, I have concerns about the training that they receive. This whole notion of implicit bias, looking… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
One of the things I benefited from when I started this business was that I didn't know anything. I was just instinct… — Michael Dell Copy Share Image
There are some people who cannot get onto a train without imagining that they are about to voyage into the significant unknown;… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Look, nearly everything in the culture says we're freaks. Doing sex work, we're desired; we can get rewarded for being what we've… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow… — Faye Wattleton Copy Share Image
I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty,… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
The walking delegates of a higher civilization, who have nothing to divide, look upon the notion of property as a purely artificial… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
The whole notion of politics is they always present you with this or this or this. I’ll get a newspaper to read… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and… — Nick Cohen Copy Share Image
Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world - even if it is conservative… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
When the feminist movement was at its zenith in the late 60's and early 70's, there was a lot of moving away… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
As a writer, I was deliberately creating an alternate world, and then populating it with experiences and people that I knew in… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
It was not the case that one thing morphed into another, child into woman. You remained the person you were before things… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
In psychology (okay, Twilight) they teach you about the notion of imprinting, and I think it applies here. I reverse-imprinted with athleticism.… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Thought is a disease of the brain. The mind defends itself against the degenerative process of creativity; it begins to jell; notions… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
I don't know where the shape of a poem comes from. I certainly don't impose it. I write out of a jumble… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
. . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
the full analysis of the notions of saying something and understanding what one said inevitably involves a concept which, as I will… — Zeno Vendler Copy Share Image
I wasn't afraid of going places or doing new things. I would do just about anything or go anywhere. I'd get a… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
I think that when you are accused of being in bad taste it can be quite positive. You're challenging the notions of… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I'm interested in taking a form, breaking it apart, and then rebuilding it. It is about transformation for me...it is a very… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
It's a romantic notion that you're going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great... but the… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do… — Arto Lindsay Copy Share Image
Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain… — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
