It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
“Most of the misery had been generated by her conventional aspect, and not by her innate sensations.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers. — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
We must make organic the conventional choice and not the exception available only to the rich and educated. — Maria Rodale Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to lead an ordered, relatively conventional and private life. — George Harrison Copy Share Image
“An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The problem in our society is the ego psychology and conventional wisdom about "look out for #1." That conventional wisdom thinks that… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
If you move furniture all day, if you're a construction worker, if you have a job that's real physical, this idea that… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It's incredible - Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
I began my career at Teledyne, where I worked on various navigation systems, including Inertial, Doppler radar, and other conventional radio navigation… — Min Kao Copy Share Image
When I did find guys with whom I was very sexually compatible, trying to figure out how romance worked... when you're a… — Guy Branum Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump is new. He's a business guy running for president. So, you're not going to see a conventional campaign… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I personally feel that parachute files give a more realistic impression of an insect to the fish that views the fly, since… — Lefty Kreh Copy Share Image
A conventional person can be restrained by the prejudices of its tradition. Convention has too many prejudicial restraints. But unconventional is good,… — Maya Tiwari Copy Share Image
The notion of following your passion is worth indulging. Your passion is your source of power. To live really a full life,… — Doug Peacock Copy Share Image
I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound… — Kat Edmonson Copy Share Image
It is science that brings us an understanding of the true complexity of natural systems. The insights from the science of ecology… — Jamie Goode Copy Share Image
To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom. — Carly Fiorina 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
All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The conventional definition of reality, and the idea of 'normal life', mean nothing. — Sigmar Polke Copy Share Image
“I had never done anything yet that was conventional – why should the love of my life be any different?” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom. — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth. — Mark Lynas Copy Share Image
In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless. — Fischer Black Copy Share Image
It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Conventional cancer therapy is so toxic and dehumanizing that I fear it far more than I fear death from cancer. — Julian Whitaker 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
Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
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