#notions

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

— Merry Browne

#locks #notions #preconceived #wisdom

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there. ↗

— Edward Norton

#acting #actor #character #coming #getting

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

— Algernon Sidney

#divines #liberty #nature #notions #school

Never let a man put his hands on you without your permission. ↗

— Melda Beaty

#notions-of-beauty #supermodels #womens-s-fiction #beauty

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#established #goal #i #notions #part

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#conceive #impossible #intimately #liberty #make

Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#did #education #elevation #emancipation #father

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

— George Byron

#his #honour #itself #notions #notwithstanding

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

I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#air #air force #arrived #days #did