Notion Quotes - page 31

In a first pregnancy, you don't have a child yet, so you can nap and see movies and exercise. The notion of 'baby' is abstract. You look at the ultrasound and don't really understand that the creature you're seeing is soon going to be your roommate. (Kelli Williams)
When I was growing up and watching 'The Sweeney,' the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that they're chasing was commonplace. View quote
Lennie James
Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole. View quote
Lauren DeStefano
Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it. View quote
Laurieann Gibson
War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum. View quote
Bruce Jackson
Essentially, we wanted to be in one of Azazel's films, so the notion was we'd simply write an Azazel Jacobs movie ourselves, and then give it to him and be like, 'Right, here's you next film, now direct us. Go.' View quote
Dolly Wells
I could never even entertain the notion that it's an option, to not be an artist. View quote
Dustin Yellin
The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius. View quote
Golan Levin
I take very seriously the notion that you have to get out in your community; you have to talk to people, but, more importantly, you have to listen to people. View quote
Gary Peters
We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future. View quote
John Barton
Filmmaking has always involved pairs: a director coupled with a producer, a director alongside an editor... The notion of couples is not foreign to cinema. (Luc Dardenne)
The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce. View quote
Lemuel K. Washburn
After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity. View quote
Martin Filler
I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further. View quote
Martin Parr
Ever since I was a kid, I've always been fascinated by the Arthurian Legend, and, you know, the notion of nobility in battle and the - the notion of chivalry. View quote
Matt Frewer
I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer. View quote
Matthew Rhys
There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case. View quote
Maynard Webb
A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother. View quote
Meghan O'Rourke
I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way. View quote
Melissa Leo
The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works and in reality the computer has a lot of influence on design. View quote
Michael Hansmeyer
For some reason, it popped into my head the notion that a lot of the Next Generation cast in the long run of that show managed to step behind the camera. (Michael Shanks)
I am not married, no. I wasn't really into the notion when I was younger, but now I think a proposal is the ultimate romantic gesture. View quote
Miranda Hart
I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start with a single premise and talk for hours - the notion of one story, ever-changing but never-ending. View quote
Nicolas Roeg
I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic. View quote
Noah Baumbach
Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal. View quote
Olivia Thirlby