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Notoriously, the United States is the most religious of the Western advanced nations. It's a bit mysterious why that is. -- Richard Dawkins
Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned. -- Fran Lebowitz
Notoriously, in 1975, Murdoch abused his position as a newspaper owner to support a plot that ousted the democratically elected prime minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam, who had dared to wander away from the mogul's path. -- Nick Davies
Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy. -- Simon Sinek
Swindlers are notoriously gullible. -- Mason Cooley
Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable. -- Chris French
Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict. -- Alan Greenspan
The dead are notoriously hard to satisfy, -- Jack Spicer
Litigation is notoriously time-consuming, inefficient, costly and unpredictable. -- Charlie Munger
Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult. -- Tim Kaine
Christian endeavor is notoriously hard on female pulchritude. -- H. L. Mencken
Our feelings about how we're feeling are notoriously unreliable. -- Ariel Garten
It is notoriously difficult to define the word living. -- Francis Crick
Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement. -- Sydney J. Harris
Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology. -- Robert Rodriguez
Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish. -- Clement Freud
Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'. -- Steve Earle
Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category. -- Anita Baker
Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community. -- David Byrne
Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too. -- Jim Harrison
Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money. -- Gene Tierney
The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin. -- William Bolitho
New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in. -- Trace Adkins
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false? -- H. P. Lovecraft
It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent. -- Halldor Laxness
The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy. -- Terry Pratchett
religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know. -- Seth MacFarlane
Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge. -- Richard E. Grant
Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write. -- Edward St Aubyn
Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged. -- Joel Sternfeld
His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile. -- Margaret Atwood
I notoriously get the hiccups. When I get the hiccups, I get it numerous times in one day. -- Amy Smart
Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders. -- Adam Phillips
Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They'll sit on anyone's knee. -- Hanif Kureishi
You know, 'Mad Men' is notoriously secretive with its plotlines, even with exposing them to actors on the show. -- Alison Brie
Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any. -- Michael Shannon
He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined. -- Chanakya
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship. -- Gertrude Stein
It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles. -- Victoria Woodhull
The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile. -- Albert J. Nock
A devotion to humanity is... too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty. -- James A. Baldwin
Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right. -- Colin Firth
I put all of my resources into pushing the evolution in an industry that is notoriously backwards and I enjoy pushing that envelope,. -- George Lucas
The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony. -- Paul Goodman
I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon. -- Truman Capote
Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it. -- Harry Browne
It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more so. -- Thomas L. Smith
Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury. -- Ray Stannard Baker
Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another - and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast - the question remains: should I? -- Christopher Paolini
The Duino Elegies' are notoriously cryptic, and part of the reason why I have always loved them is because they invite multiple readings over the course of a lifetime. -- Dinaw Mengestu
Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are disastrous, for they cannot be obliterated easily. -- Walter J. Phillips
Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it. -- George Gaylord Simpson
The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique. -- Minna Antrim
We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save. -- Erich Fromm
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times. -- Hunter S. Thompson
The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she'd have children if she had it to do over again. 'Yes', she replied 'but not the same ones.' -- David Finkelstein
Most philanthropists want to be effective altruists. But the problem isn't intention: it's measurement. Unlike financial investing, which has reporting standards, audit processes, and educational requirements, social investing is notoriously tricky to evaluate. -- Leila Janah
I suppose the Green Party doesn't care for the anti-civil libertarian provisions of the notoriously named Patriot Act, invading privacy, and being able to search your home, and not tell you for 72 hours. -- Ralph Nader
Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous. -- Nelson Goodman
Hmm. Relationships between fathers and sons can be notoriously difficult, especially for two men who are as different as you and your father are.""Yes, and he's also the king--that makes our relationship impossible. -- Lynn Austin
The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful and boring; and is a creature of physical ebullience. -- Doris Humphrey
Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it... -- George Santayana
Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths. -- Fulton J. Sheen
You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three. -- John Podhoretz
Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women - two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians - have rendered the notion of "capitalist democracy" into an oxymoron. -- Peter Thiel
While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational. -- Horace Greeley

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