All Quotes

The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.
‐‐ Joseph Stiglitz

The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
‐‐ Katha Pollitt

The notion that gaming was not for women rippled out into society, until we heard it not just from the games industry, but from our families, teachers and friends. As a consequence, I, like many women, had a complicated, love-hate relationship with gaming culture.
‐‐ Anita Sarkeesian

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.
‐‐ Peter Singer

The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture.
‐‐ Steven T. Katz

The notion that moving toward renewable energy will kill jobs is an absurdity on its face. The notion that we have to live smaller lifestyles; not have the American way of life or give up the American Dream is just ridiculous. It is the opposite of the case; a new energy paradigm will create opportunity.
‐‐ Marshall Herskovitz

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
‐‐ Iris Murdoch

The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.
‐‐ Deirdre O'Kane

The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

The notion that religion can actually be something... attached to progressivism seems so bizarre. But all you have to say is that Abolition wouldn't have happened without it. The way in which African Americans managed to achieve a degree of self-determination was through the church.
‐‐ Simon Schama

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.
‐‐ Kelly Sue DeConnick

The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.
‐‐ Trey Gowdy

The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if you'd be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut - that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

The notion that the levels of radiation would be damaging to human life is preposterous. It's simply not true. It is a political claim more than it is a scientific claim. THAAD has been a thoroughly tested system, and it has been extremely effective.
‐‐ Trent Franks

The notion that the mind and body are actually different sides of the same coin goes all the way back to the origins of medicine. For most of its history, the practice was not separated from other aspects of human activity.
‐‐ Jon Kabat-Zinn

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
‐‐ Tom Wolfe

The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.
‐‐ Cormac McCarthy

The notion that there is no basic value system is far more incoherent or invalid than the notion that there are essential values. Every religion can tell you it has basic values. You ask a Christian, most Christians would say love God and love your neighbor. Is that the entirety of Christianity? No one in his right mind would say it is.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

The notion that war forever separates veterans from the rest of mankind has been long embedded in our collective consciousness.
‐‐ Phil Klay

The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's not that big of a country. Nobody, I don't think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it.
‐‐ Carol Moseley Braun

The notion that we would market devices that would allow someone to place themselves beyond the law troubles me a lot.
‐‐ James Comey

The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules.
‐‐ Huston Smith

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

The notions of going to work, putting in set hours, and getting 'face time' are increasingly antiquated ideas. Because of technology we have entered a modern era of work where we can work from wherever we want, whenever we want and we can be more productive and make greater contributions than ever before.
‐‐ Maynard Webb

The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed to convince ourselves that reading fiction is as important to our mental digestion as fresh fruits and vegetables are to the processes that take place a little further down.
‐‐ Lynn Coady

The novel at its nineteenth-century pinnacle was a Judaized novel: George Eliot and Dickens and Tolstoy were all touched by the Jewish covenant: they wrote of conduct and of the consequences of conduct: they were concerned with a society of will and commandment.
‐‐ Cynthia Ozick

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.
‐‐ Leslie Fiedler

The novel has always been a contradictory form. Here is a long form narrative mainly read originally by consumers who were only newly literate or limited in their literacy. The novel ranked below poetry, essay and history in prestige for a long time.
‐‐ Matthew Pearl

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.
‐‐ Chad Harbach

The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.
‐‐ Lev Grossman

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.
‐‐ Bille August

The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced.
‐‐ T. C. Boyle

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.
‐‐ Donna Tartt

The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
‐‐ Dana Spiotta

The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.
‐‐ Leslie Fiedler

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
‐‐ Jose Bergamin

The novel is just fine: It's novelists who aren't doing so well.
‐‐ Russell Smith

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
‐‐ Jose Saramago

The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.
‐‐ John Banville

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.
‐‐ Leslie Fiedler

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
‐‐ D. H. Lawrence

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
‐‐ Nathalie Sarraute

The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm not Irish. I'm not anybody. I'm nobody. I'm the guy telling the story, and the only person that matters is the person reading that story, the target. It's to get that person to feel what I'm trying to dramatize.
‐‐ Colm Toibin

The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'
‐‐ Alexander Payne

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.
‐‐ Graham Swift

The novel 'World War Z' is told from the perspectives of so many people - speaking to the narrator - that there's no way a movie could capture all of them. Still, the idea of turning a zombie pandemic into a war story is fascinating and could have translated easily to film.
‐‐ Annalee Newitz

The novelist has a responsibility to adhere to the facts as closely as possible, and if they are inconvenient, that's where the art comes in. You must work with intractable facts and find the dramatic shape inside them.
‐‐ Hilary Mantel