#notion

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

— Anthony Minghella

#books #good #good movies #hold #i

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

#created #god #hell #judge #men

There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective. ↗

— David Simon

#came #detective #die #down #had

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

#get #i #i can #i think #idea

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. ↗

— Aristotle

#any #arises #because #claim #democracy

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to. ↗

— Joe Biden

#free #freedom #idea #look #notion

That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#cost #involves #make #million #money

Because there is that sort of feeling that people don't know what to do with gaps in their lives. It's a scary notion, but actually, if you can stand in space just for a little while, a new door will open, or you'll be able to see in the dark after a while. You'll adjust. ↗

— Jane Campion

#actually #adjust #after #because #dark

I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things. ↗

— Christopher Guest

#am #appear #awareness #become #earnest

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#been #committed #crimes #more #name