Notion Quotes · Page 79

I was appalled to find that the mathematical notation on which I had been raised failed to fill the needs of the…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my…

— Brigitte Bardot

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial…

— Robert Bork

The real nightmare resides in a society that hides behind the mutually informing and poisonous notions of colorblindness and a post-racial society,…

— Henry Giroux

You have a pre-conceived notion of what you want the scene to be, but once you get there, that goes out the…

— Shailene Woodley

The fairies in the ancient notion of fairies, they are not positive and cute and twinkly.They can be incredibly nasty or they…

— Guillermo del Toro

Sustainability is especially ripe for political controversy and opposition because fundamentally it is a new paradigm that represents significant challenges to the…

— Hazel Henderson

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became…

— Allan Bloom

There's an interesting question, whether the anarchists had alternatives [in Spain]. If they did tend to support the government that had been…

— Noam Chomsky

I teach art at a famous art school, and yet I don't have really the least notion what post-modernism means, but we…

— Lawrence Jordan

The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can…

— Robert Musil

Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out…

— Paul Klee

Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.

— Margaret Halsey

I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

— Anonymous

As things go digital, the notion of new editions will go away. A publisher can add video and assessment content at scale,…

— Osman Rashid

Fire had an almost magical quality that suggested anything was possible. Early on, man even believed that fire was a god that…

— Amy Sedaris

The world takes its notions of God from the people who say that they belong to God's family. They read us a…

— Alexander MacLaren

But to demand that a work be “relatable” expresses a different expectation: that the work itself be somehow accommodating to, or reflective…

— Rebecca Mead

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.

— Fay Weldon

I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and…

— Jesse Ball

Much of the hatred and fear of sexuality found in religions stems from the idea that sex is a thing of the…

— Brad Warner

I see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the…

— Gary Johnson

The first dogma which I came to disbelieve was that of free will. It seemed to me that all notions of matter…

— Bertrand Russell

Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion. . . . It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect…

— Peter George Peterson

Ever since I was a kid, I've always been fascinated by the Arthurian Legend, and, you know, the notion of nobility in…

— Matt Frewer