#notion

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed. ↗

— Byron White

#busy #choices #clause #constantly #courts

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#dim #driven #existing #forward #general

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there. ↗

— Edward Norton

#acting #actor #character #coming #getting

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. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#devil #familiar #good #good work #making

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. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#basic elements #cry #educated #education #elements

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#everybody #i #notion #single #some

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#find #generally #house #living #men

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#approval #because #certainly #confident #dad

Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#acting #actually #always #attention #big

I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#arrive #destination #emerges #goes #going