Notion Quotes - page 8

Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global 'community of women in computer science' did not exist. (Anita Borg)
I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies. View quote
Anthony Minghella
I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy. View quote
Billy Crudup
The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work. View quote
Caitlin Fitzgerald
Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it. View quote
Charley Pride
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out. View quote
Charlie Pierce
I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things. View quote
Christopher Guest
I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life. View quote
Constance Baker Motley
There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective. View quote
David Simon
Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will? View quote
David W Augsburger
First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas. (Daniel Yergin)
Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life. View quote
Edward Zwick
I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs. View quote
Fred Tomaselli
I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt. View quote
Gary McCord
Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It's no one elses' business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand. View quote
George Formby
Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity. View quote
Henry Giroux
Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed. View quote
Henry Reed
The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country. View quote
Howard Fineman
The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted. View quote
Ira Glasser
It's fair to characterise me as competitive and determined, but anyone who works with me will attest to the fact I believe very strongly in the notion of servant leadership. View quote
Irene Rosenfeld
I went from rotary phone to Twitter. And was appalled at the notion. (Jeff Perry)
I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest. View quote
Justin Zackham
Being as versatile as I am, I take offense to the notion that no serious musician would not be doing a late night talk show gig. One has to be open enough in other areas to be able to contribute to a show like this. View quote
Kevin Eubanks
My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture. View quote
Mark Leyner
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing. View quote
Marcia Angell