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
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
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
Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
James Russell offers a timely and compelling blueprint for a realistic transformation of America's energy consumption by refusing to fall victim to… — Barry Bergdoll Copy Share Image
The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As… — William Gibson 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
I seemed to have instinctually a strong idea of how the strip had to be written from the beginning. That changed too,… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want… — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
The emotional build-up and anticipation if you travel at Christmas can make it harder to enjoy a trip. I think sometimes it… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past… — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins Copy Share Image
With '44 Scotland Street' I found myself having to work out how a daily novel works, and it is completely different to… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that… — Nigel Rees Copy Share Image
Regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral Anderson...recovered an unidentified airplane off the… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends… — Chip Conley Copy Share Image
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional,… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
When you find errors in conventional wisdom-when everyone says A and A is not true-you gain competitive advantage. Only a few times… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away; we can not understand each other, if our… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Socialism is young and has made errors. Many times revolutionaries lack the knowledge and intellectual courage needed to meet the task of… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
