That requires quite an imaginative leap because it's hard for me to imagine that my biography would be of much interest to… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness. — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
This notion of public-school doors being barred to God would have confounded not only the founding fathers but also those who attended… — William Murchison Copy Share Image
I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
I grew up in Alice, Texas, a small oil town with one theater that only showed Roy Rogers movies. So when I… — Lois Chiles Copy Share Image
Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure,… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
The notions of going to work, putting in set hours, and getting 'face time' are increasingly antiquated ideas. Because of technology we… — Maynard Webb Copy Share Image
Well, in the sense of the traditional notion of God, coming out of Christianity and Islam and the Abrahamic religions, I do… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
The core of racism is the notion that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective - the race -… — Peter Schwartz Copy Share Image
We shall have to share out the fruits of technology among the whole of mankind. The notion that the direct and immediate… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
I believe the word "infidel" is not particular to any religion. I believe we are all created in the image of God,… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my… — Steve Jobs 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 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
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
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
We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I plan on having parties when I’m 30. I plan on having fun when I’m old. Any notion of THE BEST years… — Marina Keegan Copy Share Image
The way we see the world is not actually the world in itself. What we see is our idea of it. The… — Emma Restall Orr Copy Share Image
There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look… — Richard Griffiths Copy Share Image
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I found out that changing the perception of myself and the NFL, and reestablishing the notion of being a gentleman was important… — Dhani Jones Copy Share Image
According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman,… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
I don't agree with the notion that some are putting out there, including scientists, that somehow there are actions we can take… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I certainly don't want to have too many pre-conceived notions before I show up because then you might be cutting yourself off… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in… — Hugo Weaving Copy Share Image
