Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not… — Edna O'Brien 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
That's the trouble with the conventional doctors. They always say, 'How does it work?' but often there isn't any neat little answer...Something… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
In a corporate context, companies have to try very hard to oppose the enticements of conventional wisdom. They must aim for the… — John Kao Copy Share Image
The world is always changed by people who don't listen to conventional wisdom. I think we often set our goals too small… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have… — Om Puri Copy Share Image
Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Men are like microwave ovens; they heat up immediately, but things start to boil over after about three minutes. Women are like… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind… — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
For every gain in deep certitude there is a corresponding growth of superficial "doubt." This doubt is by no means opposed to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I like suggesting that ‘we are slaves to the objects around us,’ that ‘plenty should be enough,’ or that the ‘buyer should… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Certainly my films are cinematically unusual, and quite contemplative in their pacing compared to conventional films, but I think overall they are… — Jenni Olson 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
In Buddhist ideology, the conventional self is that which is constructed in a way by the use of the pronoun, and when… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Cannabis is remarkably safe. Although not harmless, it is surely less toxic than most of the conventional medicines it could replace if… — Lester Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could… — Saul Griffith 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
