Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the… — Russell Jacoby Copy Share Image
And, in some ways I like traveling, in other ways I'm sort of fed up by the whole notion. — Joe Sacco Copy Share Image
The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong. — Trevor Baylis Copy Share Image
Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and apposition,… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
The notion of art as the dearly purchased outcome of an immense spiritual risk, one whose cost goes up with the entry… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Why are solutions not just as newsworthy as problems? The notion that hostility is necessary all the time to create interest and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out… — Joshua Homme Copy Share Image
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
The modern [endtimes] notion has greatly damped the zeal of the church for missions, and the sooner it is shown to be… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There's no real, approved definition. And, in that sense, it's… — Drummond Money-Coutts Copy Share Image
I'd like to think that the notion of inspiration will transcend cultural things that are going on. There's something classic about this… — Rob Morrow Copy Share Image
"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Every other 16-year-old girl wanted to look at bridal magazines; I could not have been more bored with the notion. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn’t allow for women, and it’s also racist - it doesn’t… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
I let go of the notion of wanting someone to ignore the way I look in order to find me attractive, because… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The young women who attract so much attention never change: They are all stupid. They have at best only the crudest notions… — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
The model I like to sort of simplify the notion of what goes on in a market for common stocks is the… — Charlie Munger 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
Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of… — Eliza Bennett Copy Share Image
The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image