Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and… — Daniel Pauly Copy Share Image
One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'. — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I love challenging the notion that, in order to be a tech founder, you have to be holed up in a dark… — Kevin Systrom Copy Share Image
In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow… — Faye Wattleton Copy Share Image
The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Part of the history of black people in the western hemisphere, in some ways, has been fleeing from this notion that they… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The colour grey makes you feel uneasy, makes things seem complicated and hopeless, it upsets the notion of black and white. Good… — Akif Pirincci Copy Share Image
As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
The most common objection to changes in public policy which would increase a user's control of housing at the expense of centralized… — John Turner Copy Share Image
Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate. — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
It is within this fathoms-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From about the age of 15 or 16 I'd had the notion that I wanted to write fiction, and I'd done enough… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Yet Buddhism is four hundred years older than Christianity, and if it's not a universal religion I don't know what a universal… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
As a doctor, let me tell you what self-love does: It improves your hearing, your eyesight, lowers your blood pressure, increases pulmonary… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now… — John Updike Copy Share Image
My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don't make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace… — Maya Harris Copy Share Image
In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed… — Crispin Glover Copy Share Image
Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The popular notion that an increase in the stock of money is socially and economically beneficial and desirable is one of the… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
