Notion Quotes - page 2

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial. (Luc Besson)
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. View quote
Hannah Arendt
I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man. View quote
Toni Morrison
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages. View quote
Mark Twain
Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love. even of people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, he said, it had to be fought for. View quote
Colum McCann
It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world. View quote
Thom Mayne
If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesnt get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational. View quote
Lars Peter Hansen
Protectionist politicians cannot stand the notion of a fossil-fuel-rich America maintaining record levels of production through exports. View quote
Mike Pompeo
When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat. View quote
Lynn Abbey
When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain. View quote
Andrew Cohen
As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting. (Brian Ferneyhough)
The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience. View quote
Pamela Stephenson
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. View quote
Warren Beatty
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper. From quotations which I had seen, I had a high notion of Aristotle's merits, but I had not the most remote notion what a wonderful man he was. Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle. View quote
Charles Darwin
Love is a self-manifested notion depending on how lonely you are - so if you're really attracted to someone, and you're really lonely, I think you can fall in love in an instant. It's all about where you're at. View quote
Kiefer Sutherland
Speculative Philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted. By this notion of 'interpretation' I mean that everything of which we are conscious, as enjoyed, perceived, willed, or thought, shall have the character of a particular instance of the general scheme. View quote
Charles Hartshorne
For the ones who had a notion, A notion deep inside, That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
Symons ... remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited-long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms-what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true calling. View quote
Alain de Botton
As far as I could discover, the notion that a play could succeed without any further help from the actor than a simple impersonation of his part never occurred to Tree. View quote
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life. (André Malraux)
If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal. View quote
André Malraux
The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to a visible master, but to the past, to the spirits of his dead forefathers, who haunt his steps from birth to death, and rule him with a rod of iron. View quote
James Frazer
The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders' political views were strongly informed by their religious beliefs. View quote
Ron Paul
The notion of art as the dearly purchased outcome of an immense spiritual risk, one whose cost goes up with the entry and participation of each new player in the game. View quote
Susan Sontag