Notional Quotes

#1. It is easy to romanticise, say, tigers or lions and cats. We admire their magnificent beauty, strength and agility. But we would regard their notional human counterparts as wanton psychopaths of the worst kind.

David Pearce

#2. Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.

C.S. Lewis

#3. There isn't a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat.

Simon Beaufoy

#4. Notional is a production company with the DNA of an Internet company that makes content for everything.

Ricky Van Veen

#5. That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors.

Kate Morton

#6. The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

Ben Elton

#7. Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who's boss.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. The Cross of Christ is the only gateway to knowledge.

Simone Weil

#9. Oh yes, your relationship with Miss Bard is positively ordinary."
"Be quiet."
"Crossing worlds, killing royals, saving cities. The marks of every good courtship.

V.E Schwab

#10. I think most Americans would agree people should be treated equally and everyone ought to be able to pursue a fulfilling life with the ones they love.

Mark Udall

#11. A recent study showed that when women crave food, they desire chocolate, but when men crave food, they desire women.

Dan Van Oss

#12. I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

Gerhard Schroder

#13. The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

Graham Greene

#14. The human imagination ... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

John Berger

#15. The greatest anti-success in life is the fear to take a step.

Osunsakin Adewale

#16. Welcome, let's all prepare to be whisked to the magical land of candy. Be warned, candy is very addicting and at Jubilee's the candy is the tastiest in the world,

Derek Ailes

#17. When you are risen on the eastern horizon You have filled every land with your beauty ... Though you are far away, your rays are on Earth.

Akhenaton

#18. It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.

David Attenborough