I'm definitely a big believer in the notion that a heightened style can get you closer to an authentic human experience than… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Goldilocks [There] lived a family of bearstogether anthropomorphically in a little cottage as a nuclear family. They were very sorry about this,… — James Finn Garner Copy Share Image
San Francisco is where gay fantasies come true, and the problem the city presents is whether, after all, we wanted these particular… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I am a very, very strong advocate of the notion that we shouldn't equate the arts with other aspects of infrastructure. They… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I was very fierce and very driven at eighteen. But my basic philosophy I think has stayed the same, I'm still an… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I love The End of the Batman story. I have my original copy, the hardcover, at my house from when I was… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
I feel that the time is always right to do what is right. Where progress for the Negro in America is concerned,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people… — Harrison Salisbury Copy Share Image
When the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly all those countries had burgeoning democracies, women were still being left out. The big turning… — Kathy Calvin Copy Share Image
If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
The ways sexuality plays out in political economies is central. And Cambodia's political economy is organized around this notion of family. So… — Anne Elizabeth Moore Copy Share Image
The most expensive care we can give, we're giving those Americans without insurance. It's kind of stupid that we're fighting the notion… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
The idea that the Lord our God is not a personage of tabernacle is entirely a mistaken notion. He was once a… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Any attempt to disturb the deadly routine of instruction is looked upon as sabotage. And the notion that the aims and functions… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
I am worried about this word, this notion - security. I see this word, hear this word, feel this word everywhere. Security… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I am endlessly fascinated by this notion that everyone has a secret. Some of our secrets are tiny, small things, and some… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully,… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
I needed to sit down. I'd heard other people talk about having to sit down when shocked by an event or revelation… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The notion that Americans can be protected from "terror" by giving up the Bill of Rights is absurd. Democrats are complicit in… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what… — Michel Foucault 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
If the notion on this is we're going to elect somebody to the United States Senate so they can be the 100th… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We had people coming to our Foreign Relations Committee and saying, "Oh, we need to arm the allies of Al Qaida." They… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Now do you see why war irritates me? It's always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the end,… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don't think… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
If I can get out of the way, if I can be pure enough, if I can be selfless enough, and if… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image