This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true. I believe a third would… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
We have to remember that information sharing is restricted by legal barriers and cultural barriers and by the notion that information is… — Alan Bersin Copy Share Image
And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
It would be so helpful for the straight community to see men in powerful positions coming out and saying "I'm gay" so… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I was concerned with something like the notion of 'language speaking the subject,' and with the transformation of the woman herself into… — Martha Rosler Copy Share Image
So Marxism, Freudianism: any one of these things I think is an irrational cult. They're theology, so they're whatever you think of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to play different kinds of stuff, but it's hard, first to find good material, and then to change… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
It's like our go-to notion of innocent and secure mythology of American life. I was always amazed when people would come up… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Despite the obvious emphasis of Scripture (in regard to suffering), we are bombarded by suggestions that the 'successful' Christian living takes place… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
When I started to get disillusioned with psychoanalysis I reread philosophy and was reminded of the constructivist notion that Epictetus had proposed… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The feelings, myths and prejudices about the Negro American which now seem so valid and real to some of our white contemporaries… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is an international disease which feeds on the notion that if you have a cause to defend, you can use any… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
While the United States has never decreed that everyone has a 'right' to a telephone, we have come close to this with… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
To make sure that my blasphemy is thoroughly expressed, I hereby state my opinion that the notion of a god is a… — James Randi Copy Share Image
The Hebrews took for their idol, not something made of metal or wood, but a race, a nation, something just as earthly.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Growing up in Ireland, there never seemed to be the notion that children should be seen and not heard. We all looked… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
For instance, the notion of non-penal substitution. This idea, found in the work of the nineteenth century Scottish Reformed theologian John McLeod… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Armaments do not, generally speaking, cause wars. This notion, the logical crux of all arguments in favor of disarmament, turns the causal… — James Burnham Copy Share Image
I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero- sexual men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
There's this notion that actors choose their career. After a certain level, I think that that's true. I still take way more… — Dallas Roberts Copy Share Image
I was enrolled in divinity school and thought I was going to become a minister - I'm Episcopalian - but I was… — John Green Copy Share Image
The creation of a film starts with an idea, a notion of a time period or characters, and you get really excited… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
Don't strive for somebody else's notion of perfection. It's an unattainable and ultimately ridiculous goal. Strive instead to be uniquely yourself and… — Meredith Vieira Copy Share Image
A secret is powerful when it is empty. People often mention the "Masonic secret." What on earth is the Masonic secret? No… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
It's important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
[Women photographers] provide an inspiring reminder to all women that the choice to see, or be seen, is ours. We live in… — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
The second thing: nobody has ever been able to drop the ego because ego is not a reality that you can drop;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish… — Abraham de Moivre 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
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 Copy Share Image
And now, advice for beginning mystics. Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can.… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
![“It's like our go-to notion of innocent and secure mythology of American life. I was always amazed when people would come up to me and say that 'Far from Heaven' was exactly what it was like back then. [laughs] I was so disinterested in what it was 'really like' in the 1950s when I was putting the…” quote by Todd Haynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/805/todd-haynes-2626_amazed_it-s-like-our-go-to-notion-of-innocent-a_3106523.jpg)
![“[Women photographers] provide an inspiring reminder to all women that the choice to see, or be seen, is ours. We live in a culture in which this decision is undermined by the notion that the single most valuable contribution a woman can make is to be visually attractive. Women photographers make a…” quote by Diane Keaton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ccb/diane-keaton-5587_attractive_women-photographers-provide-an-inspiring_1279340.jpg)
![“I had to first convince them [prostitutes] that I wasn't a journalist who would yet again put out a notion about them they wouldn't necessarily care for or who would victimize them. You know, journalists come and go. If they come twice, it's a lot. But I come 10 times and hang out with them and…” quote by Michael Glawogger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/276/michael-glawogger-25782_care_i-had-to-first-convince-them-prostitutes_785923.jpg)
