Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it;… — Harry Mathews 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
That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion… — Douglas Trumbull Copy Share Image
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
If we give up the notion that everybody’s life is perfect but ours, we would be a lot happier. Nobody’s life is… — Joy Browne Copy Share Image
It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. In sorting it all out, he hit on… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover will prove. And if the Thinker thinks passionately enough, the Prover will prove the thought so… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The notion that business and government are and should be partners is ubiquitous, unremarkable, and repeated like a mantra by leaders in… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
We all have a fight - some an easy one, and some a big one, and if you have formed the idea… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
So what does that actually mean?' 'To be honest, Ghastly, I haven't a bull's notion.' 'Elder Bespoke should be addressed by his… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
I've always had a sense of groundedness as a person. I think that's helped me. My mother sort of beat into me… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
I had this notion that I could convince people who were skeptical of national Democrats to vote for me because I could… — Brad Carson Copy Share Image
Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an… — Robert Brady Copy Share Image
One of the things that I've noticed over the years is that I seem to be fascinated as a writer with the… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Gollum was so interesting to me because he's morally ambivalent, and I love the notion of a quest that is to lose… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
This very concept of police assault is a colonialist notion and it holds no significance in a modern, democratic society. — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
My brand of fantasy is completely devoid of the traditional notions of magic as ritual. Instead I see the fantastic as a… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I think when you have some success as a kid, your notion of being a good actor is pleasing the director, doing… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I think people have certain preconceived notions of certain people that they've never met. And so, that's sort of what I try… — Justin Hartley Copy Share Image
I don't know what women are attracted to. I can't tell, but certainly I have no notion of having sex appeal or… — Omar Sharif Copy Share Image
Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true,… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The notion that you would initiate a new product without preparing the way by persuasion and advertising and salesmanship is fantastic. It's… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The Islamic world is obsessed with the notion of strong leaders. This is a mistake. We don't need powerful leaders, but rather… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not… — Robert Moses Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
There are many concepts of spirituality, among them, various notions of divinity developed in the Judaeo-Christian-Islamic religions. Within these the concepts vary… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Internet community started forming right when 'Buffy' started airing, and the notion of a show creator being anything other than a… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Gollum is entirely based on the notion of addiction. The way that the ring pervades him, makes him craving, lustful, depletes him… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
You have this preconceived notion of him [Sly Stallone] as a big, tough guy, but he speaks four languages and he likes… — Rachael Leigh Cook Copy Share Image
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
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