Notion Quotes

How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.

The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.

The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.

One sees what one wants to see when there is in mind a pre-conceived notion.

The popular notion that an increase in the stock of money is socially and economically beneficial and desirable is one of the great fallacies of our time.

There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

Even the notion that, you know,[Bill] Clinton was the black president strikes me as the greatest irony of all times.

Young people refuse to be defined exclusively as consumers rather than as workers, and they reject the notion that the only interests that matter are monetary.

Education must become central to any viable notion of politics willing to imagine a life and future outside of casino capitalism.

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.

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.

And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.

Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language.

The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.

A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.

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.

It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.

Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor.

You take for granted the details that make something look real. It can still look fabulous, but if you add a light switch, a vent, or the notion of air conditioning, it can look real.

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.

The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.

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?

The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist without the notion of Nation.

People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.

Its quite pretentious, really, isnt it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.

Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child.

It was official. I now wanted to murder a ghost, a notion I'd discarded as unlikely only twenty minutes before. (Cat)

The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false.

Our notion of what makes a paradise always returns to the image of a beautiful and fruitful garden.

Even if the role is very far away from me, to try and make it as nakedly me as possible is an intriguing notion.

I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.

The idea of having a large family, I definitely had a romantic notion of it.

I always had this romantic notion of living in New York. I just felt like, everyone could be different and weird and whatever they are in New York.

I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars.

We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is called the common good.

The common good is the notion of shared collective responsibility and reciprocity. It's that that we've lost.

Some certified nut Will try to tell you it's poetry, (It's extraordinary, it makes a great deal of sense) But watch out or he'll start with some New notion or other.

The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues.

The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of concentric circles.

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.

Christians are guilty of the notion that there was a time when people were required to live by the mosaic law, I just don't know that ever was the case.

The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.

I can't stomach any kind of notion that serious fiction is good for us, because I don't believe that everything that's wrong with the world has a cure.

We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.

Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.

We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.

...the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office.

[The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan.

The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.