#notion

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#becoming #been #being #fear #fundamentalism

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#all things #art #attention #create #creative

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements. ↗

— Pearl Bailey

#greatest #notions #seem #silliest #you

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#able #bank #change #her #like

I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation... Bin Laden's actions made him into a big deal. Not the media. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#am #big #big deal #bin #creation

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial. ↗

— Luc Besson

#because #commercial #film #films #i

I had this notion that I could convince people who were skeptical of national Democrats to vote for me because I could bring home the bacon, or because I could find some personal pitch to them. ↗

— Brad Carson

#because #bring #convince #could #democrats

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick. ↗

— Angela Carter

#confidence #experience #female #human #human experience

It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#business #comic #comic books #draw #embarrassing

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#difference #free #gender #nature #notions