A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves. — Timothy West Copy Share Image
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance… — Sam Walton Copy Share Image
I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense. — Daniel Okrent Copy Share Image
Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization. — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
“Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the… — Raymond S. Moore Copy Share Image
Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a… — William of Ockham Copy Share Image
You can have a team of unconventional thinkers, as well as conventional thinkers. If you don't have the support of others you… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling.… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I've got a funny old face. Someone described it once, and I think they were being kind, as character. But I know… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I live in a country where 90 or 95 percent of the people profess to be religious, and maybe they are religious,… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
