The Notion Of A Contemporary Epiphany To Me Is Very Exciting, Because It's A Sort Of Biblical Thing. It's Something That Has… — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other,… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation… — Chandra Wickramasinghe 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
Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What… — William Greider Copy Share Image
Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
A person deprived of beauty and pleasure puts me in mind of the Haitian notion of a zombie - a person disconnected… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Adolescence has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions. — Mary Tyler Moore Copy Share Image
I think it's important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating. I am 61… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received… — Francis Bacon 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
We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch,… — Karl Popper 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
Once I became historically aware, I realized there are these formative moments of history tied around tragedy and disaster and sacrifice, that… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The story you envision as you start out is always a great story; when the facts turn out to be different from,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
As a practicing neurologist, I place central importance in applying current science to the notion of disease prevention. — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Marked by a virulent notion of hardness and aggressive masculinity, a culture of violence has become commonplace in a society in which… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
