If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.
Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.
The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.
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.
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.
I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.
I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.
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.
I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.
I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.
There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes try and deliver that, and it's not really true to their voice or who they are.
I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it's not supported by evidence.
Well, sir, it is precisely my notion that one sees and learns most of all by observing our younger generations.
But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.
Sorcery rules the world. Of course, most don't call it sorcery; indeed, many would be horrified by such a notion.
I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.
This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.
