We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
Well, I am not really a conventional mom at all. Like, I had my kids really young. I had Danny when I… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
“Everything has become very conventional. You're either in or you're out. I'm with the out- with the weird, the impossible, the victimised… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of guts to stop measuring things that are measurable, and even more guts to create things that don't… — Seth Copy Share Image
It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren't, really, in my opinion.… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
It's more important that you eat vegetables, even if they are conventional -- I'm talking about for your health -- then it… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
European security may now depend on Germany, France, Britain and one or two others, and it's better to start planning now for… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
I am not bothered with whether my characters are conventional or not. Because I am not in this for the designer labels… — Sushant Singh Rajput Copy Share Image
The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
One of the things that I think makes it hard in this society for us to tell the truth is the kind… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact. Frankly,… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Just be comfortable. Sometimes, when open up for a bigger artist at a conventional concert, you can feel unwelcome. But when you're… — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
If you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack,… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Western liberal humanism is not something that comes naturally to us: like an appreciation of art or poetry, it has to be… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The EPA's greenhouse gas regulations, along with a host of other onerous regulations, are unnecessarily driving out conventional fuels as part of… — Gina McCarthy Copy Share Image
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
I think the conventional wisdom is vastly true. There will be a huge growth in mobile, and this is something we are… — Maurice Levy Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is "continuous", and that discrete models are necessary evils… — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
In the beginning, Adam — not Eve— was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Contrary to conventional… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
Sun Tzu's ideas as expressed above had a profound effect on Ho Chi Minh, who sought to defeat both the French and… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
In conventional oil and natural gas production, you always produce a lot of formation water, and it's crummy water. It's real salty.… — Rex Tillerson Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I… — Linda Hunt Copy Share Image
The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was… — Boy George Copy Share Image
I like suggesting that ‘we are slaves to the objects around us,’ that ‘plenty should be enough,’ or that the ‘buyer should… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load… — Richard Koch Copy Share Image
If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The British people are extremely conventional. You don't always know what one is thinking or feeling because it is basically hidden. The… — Tina Turner Copy Share Image
Conventional money is supposed to be doing everything. By adding in complementary currencies, you actually get different types of things and different… — Bernard Lietaer Copy Share Image
I think I'm able to reach a lot of folks, despite the fact that the conventional news media sometimes says, "You know,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
