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
My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that… — Nigel Rees Copy Share Image
With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an… — Ray McKinnon Copy Share Image
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
My mother was not what anyone would call sweet, and she wasn't conventional. When my brother couldn't find his shoes one morning,… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value . — Sun Bin Copy Share Image
I'm quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don't look so good, which enables… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all,… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
You tend to compose things more in the middle of frame in 3-D than you would in a conventional frame. You can… — Caleb Deschanel Copy Share Image
World peace is threatened not only by weapons of mass destruction but also by conventional weapons which have led to countless violations… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
It is time for the scientific community to stop giving alternative medicine a free ride There cannot be two kinds of medicine… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of… — Casey Miller Copy Share Image
Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of their fathers… — Neville Figgis Copy Share Image
...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Ah! In fact there are two moralities ... The petty one, the conventional one, the one devised by men, that keeps changing… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
We have been doing things that are contrary; the things that people tell us won't work from the beginning. In fact, the… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could… — Saul Griffith Copy Share Image
As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Energy is the key to prosperity, to security. And until we [in US] start tapping our domestic, conventional and alternative sources to… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
The problems with conventional parking meters are myriad. Nevertheless, two advanced technologies, multispace parking meters and curb-space occupancy sensors, can make it… — Donald Shoup Copy Share Image
I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I'd heard when I was growing up were simply made up - and… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible… — Colin Blakemore Copy Share Image
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man.… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide… — Jerry Costello Copy Share Image
In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is… — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image
The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
If Americans were attacked, it does change the equation. The problem is, is that with regard to this is there've been horrendous… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Certainly my films are cinematically unusual, and quite contemplative in their pacing compared to conventional films, but I think overall they are… — Jenni Olson Copy Share Image
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite,… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
There are many disturbing news. We believe that the production of conventional petroleum reached peak oil already in 2006. The oil fields… — Fatih Birol Copy Share Image
I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a… — James Gray Copy Share Image
What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ -… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
I’m not so sure that the conventional wisdom makes any sense. Yes, it might be technically easy to track people and all… — Rod Humble Copy Share Image
Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
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