Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of… — Marian Engel 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
Our country has suffered from an on-again, off-again energy policy that has failed to get us to energy independence. As President Obama… — Ken Salazar Copy Share Image
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The Buddha's insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation… — Adyashanti 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
One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be. — Henry Ford 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 opinions fit so comfortably into the dominant paradigm as to be seen not as opinions but as statements of fact, as… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Each of us should choose which course of action we must take; education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
What I have been trying to remind people of for the past 40 years is that you can’t operate an entire conventional… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
It's important to at least break through many of the conventional approaches. I'm not sure my way is better. I will say… — Stan Shih Copy Share Image
The spiritual ambiguity growing up made me really latch onto a faith - Protestantism - that was somewhat conventional. Everyone else was… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Especially without coverage, we have made it to 4, 5, 6% in the polls just on the power of the public interest… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the… — Vladimir Nabokov 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
Obsession with conventional ideas of 'success' can be harmful enough, but compound that stress with relationships, family, financial woes and health concerns,… — Ariel Garten Copy Share Image
Cicero's words also increased my personal satisfaction by supporting my long-standing rejection of a conventional point of view. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval. — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his… — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
