Conventional Quotes · Page 2

The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for…

— Carol Bly

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax;…

— Paul Ryan

Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within…

— Deval Patrick

A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact. Frankly,…

— Sean Penn

The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

— Ariel Gore

I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people…

— Muhammad Yunus

I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political…

— Victor Davis Hanson

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

— Walter Savage Landor

I don't use conventional voices for my compositions.

— Himesh Reshammiya

In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless.

— Fischer Black

The word "collective" is not so often used because it has been basically used by socialists and communists and has a different…

— Richard D. Wolff

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

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

I probably have about four or five cups of coffee a day. I make myself an espresso macchiato when I wake, which…

— Howard Schultz

Our world was brutal, immoral, smug and conventional. We had unbounded contempt for all those who did not sin as we sinned.

— Jim Tully

Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.

— Rainbow Rowell

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly…

— Alan Moore

...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My…

— Bertrand Russell

Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know…

— Geneva Overholser

Conventional psychiatry has emphasized the genetic roots of psychosis based on the claim that twin and other studies show that schizophrenia is…

— Richard Bentall

The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road,…

— Kathryn Bigelow

Much of the conventional analysis of India's stature in the world relies on the all-too-familiar economic assumptions. But we are famously a…

— Shashi Tharoor

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

— Mayim Bialik