The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group].… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial. — Luc Besson Copy Share Image
The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
You can argue about violence. It's destructive, but people are inherently violent in a lot of ways. Abusing drugs is always bad… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
In early historical civilization, lunar symbols wove together three major metaphorical concepts. The first is the idea of fertility. The moon controls… — Layne Redmond Copy Share Image
At times, in medicine, you feel you are inside a colossal and impossibly complex machine whose gears will turn for you only… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
African cinema doesn't have an African industry at all and that's where our problem arises. We come to all of these initiatives… — Jihan El-Tahri Copy Share Image
How do we allow God into our minds, bodies, relationships, and life? We stop squeezing the divine out through our preconceived notions… — David Simon Copy Share Image
I think that we have refined greatly our notions of sovereignty in the EU. Its members consider themselves to be sovereign governments,… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
here are economies like China's economy where it's less than a tenth [of a percent] today, although it is growing, is quite… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Living under capitalism, I like learning to feel comfortable with activity that does not result in success — since non-success is the… — Terre Thaemlitz Copy Share Image
On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can… — Feist Copy Share Image
Rather than seeing ourselves as insignificant specks in the immensity of the cosmos, we can consider that immensity an indicator of our… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
Abandoned by the existing political system, young people in Oakland, California, New York City, Quebec and numerous other cities throughout the globe… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The historian Arthur Schlesinger has pointed out that people tend to get interested in politics again every 30 years. The universe moves… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I loved dancing with a delirious 'I wish I could die' passion, especially when the music appealed to me ... but alas!… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
I was appalled to find that the mathematical notation on which I had been raised failed to fill the needs of the… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
When you have an authority figure tell you something that distinguishes you, there's a little bit of a badge of courage or… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
This perhaps was what lay at the root of the hysteria surrounding what came to be known as the Gold Rush: Men… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
I think that notion of being a seeker, somebody who never felt totally fulfilled, but was always passionate about the search, that… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
There was a time when 'universe' meant 'all there is.' Everything. The whole shebang. The notion of more than one universe, more… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
If you hear some bad collectivistic notions, chances are that they came from [modern] liberals. But if you hear or read something… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
It's kind of hard to articulate, but, like, this notion of mercy, forgiveness, was very appealing for me. It was very profound.… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In many ways, Nixon started the modern notion of 'compassionate conservatism,' which as we all know is neither 'compassionate' nor 'conservative.' — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
How, given the canine teeth and close-set eyes that declare the human animal to be a predator, had we come up with… — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearance to the way I… — Ricky Williams Copy Share Image
Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Design acknowledges change. Its meaning encompasses change in our times. To design is to 'create order and to function according to a… — Sara Little Turnbull Copy Share Image
When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is… — Marieta Maglas Copy Share Image
This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait… — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
In a way, the whole notion of a blueprint of a building is not that different from a script for a movie.… — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
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