Conventional Quotes · Page 4

In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

— Anonymous

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

— Ed Miliband

The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

— Ian Mckellen

Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.

— Mark Lynas

In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless.

— Fischer Black

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

Conventional cancer therapy is so toxic and dehumanizing that I fear it far more than I fear death from cancer.

— Julian Whitaker

I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow…

— Anna Chancellor

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

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

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

I lead a very conventional life. I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion…

— Joan Didion

I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic, and the others either give me a stiff neck or…

— Tallulah Bankhead

There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional…

— Anton Chekhov

We can raise our sights high when we're willing to break free from being conformists who live a conventional life simply because…

— Alexandra Stoddard

The catch word is equilibrium again, informed the field what are conventional weapons or nuclear weapons of different qualities. You cannot make…

— Helmut Schmidt

I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound…

— Kat Edmonson

It is science that brings us an understanding of the true complexity of natural systems. The insights from the science of ecology…

— Jamie Goode

It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with…

— Dario Fo

I seemed to have instinctually a strong idea of how the strip had to be written from the beginning. That changed too,…

— Jules Feiffer

There's a lot of research that suggests that organic yields are close or superior to conventional yields depending on factors like climate.…

— Michael Pollan

The word "collective" is not so often used because it has been basically used by socialists and communists and has a different…

— Richard D. Wolff

We are very confident that the data is showing that carbon capture and sequestration is technologically feasible and it's available. It has…

— Gina McCarthy

Active management strategies demand uninstitutional behavior from institutions, creating a paradox that few can unravel. Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile…

— David F. Swensen

Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to…

— Chris Evert

All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.

— Kathleen Norris

Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.

— Rainbow Rowell

'Naach' doesn't have any of the traditional, conventional ingredients of a love story.

— Ram Gopal Varma

I've always said time and time again that I hate anything conventional.

— Ekta Kapoor

Our world was brutal, immoral, smug and conventional. We had unbounded contempt for all those who did not sin as we sinned.

— Jim Tully

Nintendo's way is to challenge conventional thinking. Not just for the sake of doing things differently, but to do things better.

— Reggie Fils-Aime

No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.

— Francoise Sagan

“never did anything conventional. Her photos are brilliant, quite honestly.”

— Kate Perry

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

— Joseph Stiglitz

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

— Sienna Guillory

Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time.

— Viktor Schauberger

Any time you try to apply conventional techniques to Donald Trump, you're going to be disappointed.

— Kellyanne Conway

Going down on a woman gives me a stiff neck, going down on a man gives me lockjaw and conventional sex gives…

— Tallulah Bankhead

The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic

— Scott Belsky