“The conventional accept and are frequently charmed by a certain unconventionality.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Achieving conventional goals, such as profits and joy, with unconventional methods, such as investing energy instead of money. — Jay Conrad Levinson Copy Share Image
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I had sort of given up on conventional journalism. I found it far too restrictive. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The truth was that I didn't want a career in the conventional business world. — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city. — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
I started working when I was very young. I got an agent when I was 12, and fortunately was employed consistently from… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
I really don't think records should be made in the manner where you sit and write, and when you're finished writing, you… — Jay Reatard Copy Share Image
When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share Image
I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that will be distributed equally throughout the… — Idi Amin Copy Share Image
George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within… — Deval Patrick Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
When I campaign with seniors, it's always, 'Are you a Democrat or Republican?' But when I campaign on college campuses, they ask… — Aaron Schock Copy Share Image
I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college,… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Unlike conventional jocks, who tend to sell aluminum siding and give canned speeches to parochial-school athletic banquets in the off-season, race drivers… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
I wanted to say something different: the pictures are also a leave-taking, in several respects. Factually: these specific persons are dead; as… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I travel 250 days a year. There are chef friends who I only see every couple of years. By conventional standards I'm… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
The conventional wisdom in our business is that you have to grow and keep moving to survive. We never grew, always stayed… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The Irish Free State was one of dozens of new European democracies to emerge from the cauldron of the 1914-1918 war. It… — John Bruton Copy Share Image
It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. Let me then float an unconventional… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
James Russell offers a timely and compelling blueprint for a realistic transformation of America's energy consumption by refusing to fall victim to… — Barry Bergdoll Copy Share Image
The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese… — William D. Leahy Copy Share Image
Early on, before rock 'n' roll, I listened to big band music - anything that came over the radio - and music… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
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