Notion famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.
-- Abraham Kuyper -
Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.
-- Allan Kaprow -
I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
-- Ann Richards -
All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
-- Ann Voskamp -
I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.
-- Anthony Minghella -
The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident
-- Austin Farrer -
It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.
-- Carlton Cuse -
My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.
-- Charles Baxter -
Do you have any notion of how ***** crazy you are?
-- Cormac McCarthy -
But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?
-- Dar Williams -
Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.
-- David Attenborough -
Generally there is Stigler's law of Eponymy that says that a scientific notion is never attributed to the right person; in particular, the law is not due to Stigler.
-- Dennis Lindley -
I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that every happened to you.
-- Donald Hall -
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.
-- Emile Durkheim -
I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
-- Emily Bronte -
I've never been one of those people, who subscribe to this notion that the book is dead.
-- George Brandis -
C++ also supports the notion of friends: cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts.
-- Grady Booch -
I am against the notion of style in itself
-- Guillermo Cabrera Infante -
You obtain God only when you get rid of the notion of separateness from God.
-- Gurumayi Chidvilasananda -
When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.
-- Jackson Pollock -
I went from rotary phone to Twitter. And was appalled at the notion.
-- Jeff Perry -
The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true.
-- Joel Salatin -
I don't happen to subscribe to the notion that everybody who criticizes Tom Daschle is criticizing Tim Johnson. I think that's a bit of a stretch.
-- John Thune -
We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.
-- Jose Saramago -
Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions
-- Joseph Chilton Pearce -
Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.
-- Julian Baggini -
She's got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women.
-- Kate Chopin -
When we let go of all our notions about things, everything becomes really true.
-- Kosho Uchiyama -
I’m suspicious of the notion of a single book that would benefit everyone to read.
-- Kristin Cashore -
What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.
-- Kristin Cashore -
Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
-- Larry Wall -
Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.
-- Leon Kass -
The vast unfathomable sea Is but a Notion-unto me.
-- Lewis Carroll -
When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
-- Lynn Abbey -
Sin is ground in the notion of what is there that I want.
-- Mark Sanford -
I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.
-- Mark Strand -
I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.
-- Martin Parr -
General notions are generally wrong.
-- Mary Wortley Montagu -
I am changing the notion that actresses can’t have happy marriages
-- Mercy Johnson -
Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.
-- Nick Cave -
I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.
-- Noah Baumbach -
Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no.
-- Norman Lamm -
The conception of Godhead formed by some devout philosophers and mystics has quite rightly been so immeasurably vast, though still assuredly utterly inadequate and necessarily beneath reality, that the notion of a God revealed in human formborn, sufferin.
-- Oliver Lodge -
I was raised with the notion that you can do pretty much do anything you want. I always kind of just went ahead and tried things.
-- Pierre Omidyar -
For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.
-- Ricki Lake -
The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.
-- Samuel Beckett -
The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
Preconceived notions and rules are antithetical to the creative process.
-- Scott Kahn -
If you feel like loving me, if you've got the notion, I second that emotion.
-- Smokey Robinson -
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
-- Stendhal -
It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion.
-- Sun Ra -
Don't get bogged down by the notion of limits. There aren't any.
-- Sunita Williams -
Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.
-- Woody Allen -
'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.
-- Andrew O'Hagan -
When you're a black superhero you can't erase the notion that you're black.
-- Cheo Hodari Coker -
I get inspired by the notion of transforming people into extraordinary versions of themselves.
-- Elan Lee -
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.
-- John Divola -
A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.
-- Meghan O'Rourke -
I'm interested in how small the world really is, and this notion that what happens in one place affects someone else.
-- Tim Kring -
I want to be in a position where I get to start off fresh. I don't have any preconceived notion of how I should feel.
-- Trevor Noah -
We can take that as a notion that we don't know exactly what [Trump] is going to do, but we can't afford to take a position of waiting around to see.
-- Willie Parker -
The notion of the competitiveness of countries, on the model of the competitiveness of companies, is nonsense.
-- Martin Wolf -
The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.
-- Betty Rollin -
Americans have only the dimmest notion of what their constitutional freedoms are - and what it took to get them...[and] the willingness to surrender what we're supposed to be fighting for is a recurring part of our history.
-- Nat Hentoff -
My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.
-- Philip Levine -
The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past time, or in a wholly imaginary world.
-- Elizabeth Hand -
I think that notion of leadership is bankrupt.
-- Ronald A. Heifetz -
Long-haired Chihuahuas have no notion they are bite-sized.
-- Rosemary Clement-Moore -
Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.
-- Sharon Shinn -
Believing is seeing. It's much more effective than the old notion that seeing is believing.
-- Terrence E. Deal -
I've always subscribed to the notion that a writer always has something else to say, and the more you write, the more you have to write about, because the act of writing is self-generating.
-- Kate Christensen
