Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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.
Jockeying for a popularity position has been a valorized teen tradition since the notion of a discrete teen stage of life was invented.
Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.
The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.
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.
Protectionist politicians cannot stand the notion of a fossil-fuel-rich America maintaining record levels of production through exports.
In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.
I'm coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities.
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, 'All right, Doctor Who?' And, I thought, I rather liked that notion.
I love dressing up, and I'm aware that people do say that it can take your attention away from the game. But I disagree with this notion!
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?
Because of my methodology and my sensibilities to write songs, I'm not very comfortable with the notion to rush in any creative endeavor.
The notion that one's home is one's castle and you can pull up the drawbridge is not one that people in public policy circles believe in.
I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.
To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!
The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.
Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.
In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.
This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.
I don't know what women are attracted to. I can't tell, but certainly I have no notion of having sex appeal or being seductive in any way.
One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.
I am trying to cultivate the notion that constantly misplacing one's cell phone is a charming eccentricity... my children aren't buying it.
Once the notion of time travel starts to come naturally to the human mind, it is supremely easy to assimilate it into our mode of thinking.
Offering unequal leaves just reinforces the longstanding notion that parenting responsibilities aren't equal, and that doesn't help anyone.
The notion of someone who is fitting in or trying to become part of a larger family... It's hard to separate that from my own Jewish roots.
It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.
Sometimes it feels like people can't wrap their head around the notion that an 'androgynous' trans woman with shorter hair could be beautiful.
There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is always evolving.
I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation... Bin Laden's actions made him into a big deal. Not the media.
My own background is fairly liberal and so this notion of 'protecting women from outside intrusion' is not in my nature, nor in my upbringing.
The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
This is a candidate who never even thought about policy. What Trump represents is pure willpower and the notion of breaking through the system.
The very first pieces of film that I did were really graphic designs translated to film. Graphic designs that moved. That was a very new notion.
I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.
The Ultimate and Highest leave taking is leaving God for GOD, leaving your notion of God for an Experience of That which transcends all notions.
I had a brief period of questioning whether I should perhaps adopt a child. And my New Yorker editor, Henry Finder, was horrified by the notion.
I think when you have some success as a kid, your notion of being a good actor is pleasing the director, doing exactly what they tell you to do.
There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
I always had this notion of a noir novel in Galway. The city is exploding, emigration has reversed, and we are fast becoming a cosmopolitan city.