Notion Quotes

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail. - Jonathan Swift

Younger people especially, I urge them to open a Roth. Being able to get tax-free withdrawals is very powerful, so the general notion is you should look to the Roth IRA right away. - Bob Fitzsimmons

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology. - Clifford Geertz

You know for years before the notion of sequels, actors were the franchise. John Wayne would rarely do sequels, but he kind of played the same guy with a different name in every movie. I have no problem with using actors as franchises. And that's what is fun to do. - Joel Silver

You have this preconceived notion of him [Sly Stallone] as a big, tough guy, but he speaks four languages and he likes to watercolor. - Rachael Leigh Cook

You got a favorable surprise on the CPI. We had the first decline in the core rate in 21 years. It just reminds the Fed, which said last week that the risks of inflation and deflation were almost equally balanced, that you still have some very residual deflation risk. And it ... supports the notion that the Fed might not have to raise interest rates at all next year. - Cary Leahey

You gear yourself up to produce great content for the medium you're serving. We've been serving the primary medium of television for many years, and so our systems and creative people are very focused on that notion. The way we got our digital media businesses off the ground was extending our TV shows and franchises, but now we're starting to see that each medium has its own dynamic and its own rhythms. What works on MTV may not work on Overdrive, and vice versa. So we wanted to creative groups of people who are obsessed about serving new platforms as we have been in the traditional TV area. - Brian Graden

You do not come back from those depths just by making some shifts here and there and cherry-picking a few issues you think are popular. It just isn't that easy. The notion that you can just snap your fingers after falling from the high 60s to the low 30s, that you can give a speech, propose some infrastructure spending and say some things that you think pull you back to the center is naive in the extreme. - Garry South