There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness. — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
Religion ... has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever. What it means is,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I think that the word feminism doesn't imply enough in terms of solidarity with other liberation struggles. I am firmly committed to… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
Where would we in Washington and we in America be without the Center? We would know much less about the workings of… — Seymour Hersh 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
Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes… — Christian Camargo Copy Share Image
I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure -… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Driving that train, high on cocaine Casey Jones you'd better watch your speed Trouble ahead, trouble behind And you know that notion… — Robert Hunter 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
And of course, FDR was very charming. At 6'2", he was tall enough to be her beau, and they made a beautiful… — Blanche Wiesen Cook 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
The conception of Godhead formed by some devout philosophers and mystics has quite rightly been so immeasurably vast, though still assuredly utterly… — Oliver Lodge Copy Share Image
There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion. — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A huge amount of what feminists are fighting for would have major positive impact for men as well as women. Take the… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning… — Plato Copy Share Image
I really don't like that modern notion of 'I don't need anyone.' I see a lot of young women feeling they have… — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
I contemplate the notion that maybe regrets are a process of accumulation of time, as unavoidable as a closet full of clothes… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The Hebrews took for their idol, not something made of metal or wood, but a race, a nation, something just as earthly.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Write from the soul, not from some notion what you think the marketplace wants. The market is fickle; the soul is eternal. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
