Conventional Quotes · Page 5

Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.

— Florence Griffith Joyner

“It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

— Mayim Bialik

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

— Walter Savage Landor

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be…

— Anita Brookner

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

— Eli Broad

I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of…

— Marian Engel

All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional,…

— Paul Gauguin

The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for…

— David Lloyd George

Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and…

— Gabrielle Roth

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

Nothing that I've done has been conventional. I didn't go with a major label, I didn't sign up with the bigwig management…

— Ricki-Lee Coulter

It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and…

— Robert Jay Lifton

[In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred…

— Albert Einstein

I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in…

— Marilyn Manson

Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they…

— Florence Nightingale

A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence. One reason I'm in…

— Bill Moyers

The author brings to the table a healthy skepticism of the conventional wisdom, an admirable ability to separate fact from fancy, and…

— Alan Abelson

I think the Russians basically don't think the North Koreans and the Iranians have the capabilities to get weapon systems that can…

— John Bolton

I've been a writer and a parent since adolescence, it feels like, and I'm still making both gigs up as I go…

— Tim Winton

I thought both she [Gypsy Rose Lee] and her story would be ill-served by a conventional, birth-to-death narrative, and so I structured…

— Karen Abbott

I think The Magicians takes these conventional ideas from this Christian literature of good vs. evil and it sort of shakes it…

— Hale Appleman

Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his…

— Philip Warren Anderson

Look, I like my music, and I don't have a conventional background for a politician, but I'm pretty conventional in many senses.

— Chuka Umunna

I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom.

— Arthur Eddington

For me, I actually found that it would have been more frightening to take the conventional path.

— Satoru Iwata

I would never get married in a conventional way; I'd have the 'Curb' music as the union music.

— Annabelle Wallis

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.

— David Suzuki

Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.

— Jack Kirby

I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved.

— Helmut Schmidt

I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you

— Charlotte Bronte

I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.

— Eric Burdon

I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't…

— Chris Cornell

Fauvism was our ordeal by fire... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light... The great merit of this…

— Andre Derain

In its heyday, the blazer had come to symbolise a kind of conventional decency. Yacht club commodores and school bursars wore blazers.…

— Craig Brown

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters…

— Russell Smith

I think a lot of police procedurals are very conventional. With the stuff I'm doing, I'm trying to approach the institution of…

— Jed Mercurio

There are times I wish I was more conventional. I would get a husband and a baby and a big SUV in…

— Lauren Oliver