Notion Quotes

The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars.

— Jim Leach

General notions are generally wrong.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.

— Allan Kaprow

The word 'commercial' implies a notion of profit.

— Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia

While we're in the dream, these are useful notions.

— Frederick Lenz

Expand your notion of what adversity is.

— Robert Greene

I think that notion of leadership is bankrupt.

— Ronald A. Heifetz

Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.

— William Alfred Quayle

For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

— Bruce Springsteen

The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.

— Nicholas Negroponte

When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.

— James Cook

“Great ideas doesn't need approvals, they need application.”

— Amit Kalantri

I think it's an old fashioned notion that fashion needs to be exclusive to be fashionable.

— Marc Jacobs

The whole notion of an embassy is like 'The Other.' That's what makes Washington interesting.

— Steven Holl

I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.

— W. A. Criswell

I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of…

— Christopher Guest

It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest…

— Robert Mondavi

Poincaré was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of…

— Anonymous

I try not to have too specific notions because it messes up the process later on. I leave it very open to…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

It is within this fathoms-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of…

— Anonymous

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

— Bryan Cranston

Having a traditional view of marriage should not be seen as discriminatory, unfortunately the bill has promoted this notion. It has not…

— Jim Dobbin

As a practicing neurologist, I place central importance in applying current science to the notion of disease prevention.

— David Perlmutter

In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. lacked a preconceived notion of me, I was…

— Becki Newton

When you approach it, and I hate sounding like the pretentious actor, but yeah, I think you have to find things within…

— Steve Carell

Something that's of common interest to every man, woman and child on the planet must surely be the notion of 'Peace'. Without…

— Annie Lennox

Yet just as the day has two halves, one governed by the sun and the other by the moon, so there are…

— Aino Kallas

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

The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules,…

— Joseph Campbell

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

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

So I suppose I do not know how he really looked, and, in fact, I suppose I shall never know, now, for…

— Angela Carter

I just sat there looking at television, sort of dumb and thought how horrible it was. I had -- the grand aspects…

— Andy Rooney

In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us.…

— Allan Bloom

...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for…

— Carl Sagan

There's a current notion that you should "take charge of your disease." No thanks. I'm busy. I've got cancer. I'm willing to…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The delight of the Torah is ignited by an inner awareness. A man begins to sense the great tapestry of each letter…

— Abraham Isaac Kook

Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific…

— Paul Flory

No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be…

— Stephen Jay Gould