#notion

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

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

— Christian Lacroix

#how #look #me #notion #old photographs

For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are. ↗

— Ricki Lake

#because #famous #meet #notion #preconceived

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. ↗

— Merry Browne

#locks #notions #preconceived #wisdom

The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#believe #church #citizens #democracy #dogma

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

— William Odom

#arab world #different #europe #land #notion

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#accompany #after #came #creatures #decided

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#divines #liberty #nature #notions #school

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 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

#actually #always #appearance #been #beings