One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I don't happen to subscribe to the notion that everybody who criticizes Tom Daschle is criticizing Tim Johnson. I think that's a… — John Thune Copy Share Image
Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth is, some of these comments, when you actually ask 'well, this is based on what? This notion that Obama's a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
I have a notion that there's a Star Wars out there waiting to be made, and I'm not sure it's the next… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Joy is the great note all through the Bible. We have the notion of joy that arises from good spirits or good… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Happiness can seem like an abstract, transcendent notion, but in fact, I found that getting enough sleep (very important!!), getting exercise, not… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
It's dark out, Jack, the stations out there don't identify themselves, we're in it raw-blind like burned rats, it's running out all… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
The promises of pie-in-the-sky liberal environmentalists that we can convert to 'clean' energy sources and stimulate our economy are based on dubious… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
You can't get a leopard to change his spots. In fact, now that I come to think of it, you can't really… — Geoffrey K. Pullum Copy Share Image
This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns! — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I like the notion of guiding, because I can offer advice through my own experiences, tastes and beliefs. But it's all in… — Erol Alkan Copy Share Image
Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything… — Wayne Dyer 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
A lot of people talk about the spirituality of Buddhism, and it is a spiritual discipline. But in Shambhala there also is… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Young people refuse the notion that financialization defines the only acceptable definition of exchange, one that is based exclusively on the reductionist… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
There is one aspect of happiness that's been well studied, and it's the notion of flow. Ask yourselves, when for you does… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
It is urgent to prevent new U.S. aggression. The time is now for the world to say 'no' to U.S. threats of… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also… — Saunders Mac Lane Copy Share Image
Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy,… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a… — Bucky Pope Copy Share Image
As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Why, when an athlete says something, why is it downplayed or considered not OK? I've always challenged that notion. — Jaylen Brown Copy Share Image
You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality.… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my… — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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