Quotes of: Preconceived-notion Keyword

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

Peter Singer

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

Lord Byron

I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.

Hugo Weaving

I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.

Rory Stewart

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

'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

Andrew O'Hagan

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

Lemuel K. Washburn

It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.

Jamais Cascio

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Samuel Richardson

There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is always evolving.

Lena Headey

People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert.

Michelle Branch

According to Mr. Obama, exceptionalism is so yesterday, an uncool, antiquated and ultimately destructive notion.

Monica Crowley

I think it's an old fashioned notion that fashion needs to be exclusive to be fashionable.

Marc Jacobs

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

Ryan Phillippe

I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.

Noah Baumbach

I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

Mark Strand

The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.

Annie Dillard

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

Rachel Griffiths

The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

Matt Taibbi

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

Tom T. Hall