Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters,… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it… — Magda Apanowicz Copy Share Image
But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested beings who need… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have… — Larenz Tate Copy Share Image
Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
“Beliefs are stronger than mere ideas, thoughts and notions, be careful about what you believe.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that 'something' is… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
Freedom is a human concept. We have these very romanticized, sentimentalized notions of freedom. And for species - monkeys and other creatures… — Thomas French Copy Share Image
My concepts are never bright ideas; they're never notions I think will sell or be trendy or attract new fans. I don't… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
A lot of preconceived notions that I had about fame and status and money and joy and pain, and all of these… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions. — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
I think the expectation of me was that I'd grow up, get married, have a family, probably not even have a job… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
3D printing is already shaking our age-old notions of what can and can't be made. — Hod Lipson Copy Share Image
There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Republican Party needs to, first of all, quit electing people in primaries that have prehistoric notions about women's issues. — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot. — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
More-radical scholars insist that an inherent clash exists between science and our long-held conceptions about consciousness and moral agency: if you accept… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
