I like the notion of making stuff up or letting your imagination go away with you. — Stevie Jackson Copy Share Image
An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection. — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
“Expanding your notion of fun beyond a two-week vacation in Maui increases the chances you'll have more of it.” — Karen Karbo Copy Share Image
Our notion of what makes a paradise always returns to the image of a beautiful and fruitful garden. — Jeff Cox Copy Share Image
I hate chilling. I hate even the notion of chilling. I like doing stuff. — Jack Lowden Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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 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
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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for… — Malorie Blackman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
Racism is an attack on the very notion of the universality of human rights. It systematically denies certain people the enjoyment of… — Irene Khan Copy Share Image
Even the notion that women should have children at all is based on the idea that a woman's inherent and most important… — Jessica Valenti 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
For me, diversity is not a value. Diversity is what you find in Northern Ireland. Diversity is Beirut. Diversity is brother killing… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
"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 Copy Share Image
The decay of the late, great country of South Africa is beginning to become apparent. The name of the Transvaal has been… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Another problem of fragmentation is that thought divides itself from feeling and from the body. Thought is said to be the mind;… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Human beings, because we're so clever, have removed every single one of those population limiting factors... So nothing controls our increase in… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I refuse to give in to the notion that the American people can't handle complicated information. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert. — Michelle Branch Copy Share Image