Notion Quotes · Page 5

'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

— Andrew O'Hagan

I myself find it hard to accept the notion of self-creation from nothing, even given unrestricted chance.

— J. L. Mackie

The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

— Vance Packard

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

— Akio Morita

The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.

— Trey Gowdy

The notion that scientists are dispassionate - first of all, that's wrong. Scientists are extremely passionate.

— Carl Hart

There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there.

— Rumi

I like the notion of making stuff up or letting your imagination go away with you.

— Stevie Jackson

Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global 'community of women in computer science' did not exist.

— Anita Borg

It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion…

— Jonathan Coe

Somehow we've even developed the notion that a woman who seeks to meet her husband's needs is subservient (but a husband who…

— Laura Schlessinger

Everything in your life might be good, but there's still this notion that everything is not going to be okay, that there's…

— Steven Drozd

Personally, I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and…

— Sue Grafton

I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I…

— Matthew William Goode

When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion…

— Douglas Trumbull

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

— Walter Lippmann

I had to first convince them [prostitutes] that I wasn't a journalist who would yet again put out a notion about them…

— Michael Glawogger

Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That,…

— Bill Keller

We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution…

— Robert Neelly Bellah

I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for…

— Malorie Blackman

My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or…

— Marjane Satrapi

What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find…

— David Adjaye

Racism is an attack on the very notion of the universality of human rights. It systematically denies certain people the enjoyment of…

— Irene Khan

Armaments do not, generally speaking, cause wars. This notion, the logical crux of all arguments in favor of disarmament, turns the causal…

— James Burnham

I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded.…

— Joe Sample

If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration…

— Mark Epstein

Practice can be stated very simply. It is moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not…

— Joko Beck

The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally recognizable roles,…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions…

— Roxane Gay

For me, diversity is not a value. Diversity is what you find in Northern Ireland. Diversity is Beirut. Diversity is brother killing…

— Richard Rodriguez

The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since…

— Susie Bright

An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination.

— Kenneth Goldsmith

You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.

— Albert Camus

If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.

— Scott Berkun

“Expanding your notion of fun beyond a two-week vacation in Maui increases the chances you'll have more of it.”

— Karen Karbo

Our notion of what makes a paradise always returns to the image of a beautiful and fruitful garden.

— Jeff Cox

There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

— Alan Moore

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

— Samuel Richardson

I went from rotary phone to Twitter. And was appalled at the notion.

— Jeff Perry