In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I would try to sing out of key very consciously. I was probably afraid of trying too… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative,… — John Major Copy Share Image
I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It has to be absolutely believable. It's also going between images and scenes with nudity and sexuality that would be seen, in… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
In a sense these are questions that most people ask themselves to some extent. They become philosophical when asked with a persistence… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
I don't think that split government is a good idea. Conventional wisdom in Washington for years has been that divided government is… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're never,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The company-as-a-machine model fits how people think about and operate conventional companies. And, of course, it fits how people think about changing… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
Ramesh Ponnuru and others say Obama is a conventional liberal. But conventional liberals don't come out for the release of the Lockerbie… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core. A take-charge… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
I would drink and drink and then at 3 o'clock in the morning take anything that was put in front of me.… — Moby Copy Share Image
I disagree that Blood Will Out is a memoir in the conventional sense. It's the story of a relationship, primarily, not an… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources. — Dan Levitan Copy Share Image
Unless this [Barack Obama] American administration is willing to diverge from the conventional American policy in the Middle East by changing its… — Ilan Pappe Copy Share Image
I've chosen films that are different compared to the conventional Bollywood films we all know and love. — Hrithik Roshan Copy Share Image
We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image