An intellectual challenge presents itself? I am in bliss. Instantly, it brings forth the notion of triumph. — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed… — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
We still find, especially in parts of academe, the damaging notion that everything is a struggle for power, or being empowered, or… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
My notion of spirituality was different than it is now, but even if I'd been the most fundamentalist of believers, I would… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Americans have only the dimmest notion of what their constitutional freedoms are - and what it took to get them...[and] the willingness… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury… — Plato Copy Share Image
I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it's not supported… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I used to think I should like to be a bookbinder or bookseller it seemed to me a most delightful trade and… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Detroit was an exaggeration of what was going on across the country. You could see the divisions, even within the Civil Rights… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
It was Shakespeare's notion that on this day birds begin to couple; hence probably arose the custom of sending fancy love-billets. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
When listening to the sound material, we metamorphose the inside into an outside. This notion of metamorphosis is one of the principles… — Bernard Parmegiani Copy Share Image
I know that as a very young child, I was afraid of death. Many children become aware of the notion of death… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I have nothing but scorn for the notion of an Islamic bomb. There is no such thing as an Islamic bomb or… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
People want to put you in the box, and you just have to fight past their preconceived notions. — Gina Carano Copy Share Image
