I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?" — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind... — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion. — Jay Sankey Copy Share Image
I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing. — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
One of the greatest mistakes that people make who pursue self-discovery is they neglect to develop their careers. There is a popular… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A lot of people like the idea of eternal love and eternal romance. The notion of love that is more profound and… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have… — Jack Reed Copy Share Image
There is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal. Maybe it's only Western people that can self-govern. Maybe it's only,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I certainly think the antagonism came out of a mistaken notion amongst the Indian people that the Chinese aggressed on us, and… — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
As governor of New Mexico, I would have - I signed a bill banning late term abortion. I've always favored parental notification.… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self interest for himself, his family, and the future… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
In the end, Tuesday's vote represented a repudiation of virtually every notion Democrats embraced in recent weeks as they tried to disregard… — Byron York Copy Share Image
We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Instead of it being the mark of a real man that you can shoot somebody at 50 feet and kill them with… — David Hemenway Copy Share Image
I say that creeds, dogmas, and theologies are inventions of the mind. It is the nature of the mind to make sense… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
It is within the family that children learn the values that will guide them for the rest of their lives. It is… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I used to do miserably in English literature, which I thought was a sign of moral turpitude. As I look back on… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
“I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate. — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
An intellectual challenge presents itself? I am in bliss. Instantly, it brings forth the notion of triumph. — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Believing is seeing. It's much more effective than the old notion that seeing is believing. — Terrence E. Deal Copy Share Image
Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion... — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
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