Notion Quotes

• I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

  Peter Jennings

  Objectivity, Want, Littles

  KETV NewsWatch 7 Interview, quoted in The Omaha Channel article, October 19, 2004.

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• The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

  Christian Lacroix

  Years, Looks, Realizing

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• I'd like to think that the notion of inspiration will transcend cultural things that are going on. There's something classic about this movie that I'm hoping reaches kids.

  Rob Morrow

  Inspiration, Kids, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

  Lord Byron

  Literature, Way, Shelley

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.337, Routledge

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• That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

  Samuel Richardson

  Husband, Rakes, Dangerous

  Samuel Richardson (1784). “Clarissa: Or, the History of a Young Lady. Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. ... By Mr. Samuel Richardson. In Eight Volumes”, p.2

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• We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

  Stan Brakhage

  Foundation, Way, Prove It

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

  William Eldridge Odom

  Europe, Land, Rights

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• When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

  Lynn Abbey

  Ideas, Literature, Heartbeat

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• I'm not one of these guys who says 'Now I'm on a really hot show. Better quit soon before I get labeled.' That's the most ridiculous notion I'd ever heard.

  Jeff Probst

  Guy, Hot, Ridiculous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Animal, Needs, Fool

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• Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings

  Cheris Kramarae

  Women, Bad Ass, Radical Feminism

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• So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.

  Ted Nelson

  Struggle, Cat, Ideas

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• I think it's important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating. I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food.

  Nicholas Stern

  Change, Attitude, Drinking

  "Vegetarian diet is better for the planet, says Lord Stern" by David Batty and David Adam, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2009.

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• When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

  Pearl Bailey

  Achievement, Youth, Young

  Pearl Bailey (1969). “The raw Pearl”, Pocket

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• I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  School, Debate, Doubtful

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.229, Stanford University Press

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• The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Mind, Liberty, Impossible

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• Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

  Gene Simmons

  Life, Too Short, Delusional

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• People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed to think certain ways or that they're not supposed to think, basically, and they don't.

  Crispin Glover

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

  Marquis de Sade

  Atheist, Men, Views

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• Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.

  Ron Paul

  Men, Risk, Liberty

  "Conscription – The Terrible Price of War". www.antiwar.com. November 26, 2003.

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• The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

  Salman Rushdie

  Atheist, Ideas, Religion

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Inspirational, Magic, Genius

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• The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fear, Innovation, Atheism

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• 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.

  Matt Smith

  Doctors, People, Scarves

  "New Doctor Who Matt Smith was destined for the part because of his dress sense he tells Esquire" by Jody Thompson, www.mirror.co.uk. March 1, 2010.

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• The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

  Jean Paul

  Children, Evil, Atmosphere

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