Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
If you're embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn't include weeping, then you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from… — George Smoot Copy Share Image
There was a degree of interventionism in American foreign policy, the notion that we must be the superpower and we have to… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
As things go digital, the notion of new editions will go away. A publisher can add video and assessment content at scale,… — Osman Rashid Copy Share Image
I don't like to read anything on the radio for the very first time, because I don't have any notion of a… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
One is distracted by this notion that there is such an thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
[ Massachusetts constitution] was [John Adams] attempt to justify that structure by the traditional notion of social estates - that the executive… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Our experience tends to confirm a long-held notion that being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There's a sense that we've obtained from various quarters in the Security Council that the notion of an international tribunal is not… — Marty Natalegawa Copy Share Image
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side,… — William Melmoth Copy Share Image
For it oft happens that a notion, when it is cloathed with words, seems tedious and operose and hard to be conceived,… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Only in Washington would the Republican operatives get the entire press corps ginned up over the notion that I'm going to be… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
If you apply conservative principles and you stick with it, and you have the leadership skills to bring people toward the cause,… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no sort of self more subject to dangerous egotism than that which deludes itself with the notion that it… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore.… — Twyla Tharp 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
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
This notion that I was somehow special and deserving of a more involved education was wrong.I was smart at taking tests, but… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones. — Wes Nisker Copy Share Image
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all. — John Berger Copy Share Image
For the ones who had a notion, A notion deep inside, That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive I… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image