Notion

Famous quotes containing the word notion:

“There are many humorous things in the world; among them the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“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 (b. 1919)

“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 (b. 1931)