Notion Quotes

I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.

I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.

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.

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.

Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

I don't think anyone would argue with the notion that there have been serious abuses on Wall Street.

I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!

The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience.

Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

And, in some ways I like traveling, in other ways I'm sort of fed up by the whole notion.

In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.

When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.

The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years.

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

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.