Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention… — Marco Brambilla 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
Charlie's not your conventional mathematician... we sexed him up a little bit. — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules… — Thomas Homer-Dixon Copy Share Image
There are lots of cycles to markets - boom and bust - and also in perceptions of people. The conventional wisdom of… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To shoot a conventional film means that you are always covering yourself. You are putting nets and, in a way, letting bad… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
There is more to American politics than fat cats and their political friends. There are serious-minded liberals who fight the good fight… — G. William Domhoff Copy Share Image
Like a lot of writers, I just got sick to death of conventional fiction. I absolutely couldn't stand the illusion of reality… — Jane Alison Copy Share Image
Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
As for Tenacious D, of course it could work as a full length movie; all it requires is a great writer and… — David Cross Copy Share Image
It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles. — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life? — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
I like baked potatoes. I don't have a microwave oven, and it takes forever to bake a potato in a conventional oven.… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from… — Moby Copy Share Image
While in the American academia the knowledge production on the Middle East in general and Syria in particular has been considerably transformed… — Ilan Pappe 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
