I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
For me, I actually found that it would have been more frightening to take the conventional path. — Satoru Iwata Copy Share Image
I would never get married in a conventional way; I'd have the 'Curb' music as the union music. — Annabelle Wallis Copy Share Image
Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval. — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved. — Helmut Schmidt Copy Share Image
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to. — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Fauvism was our ordeal by fire... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light... The great merit of this… — Andre Derain Copy Share Image
In its heyday, the blazer had come to symbolise a kind of conventional decency. Yacht club commodores and school bursars wore blazers.… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and… — Anthony James Leggett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think The Magicians takes these conventional ideas from this Christian literature of good vs. evil and it sort of shakes it… — Hale Appleman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Contrary to received wisdom, the British are not an insular people in the conventional sense - far from it. For most of… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or… — Willa Cather 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
Whether you are buying a car or casting a ballot, choosing a job or planning a family, follow your moral compass. Don't… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
There's all of the DVD extra material and all these other pieces of information that don't fit into a 90-minute experience, but… — Alex Stapleton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are times I wish I was more conventional. I would get a husband and a baby and a big SUV in… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
When my films don't work it's usually because I tried some very experimental idea. I tried new ideas and they just didn't… — George Lucas 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
I think audiences crave something new. I don't think audiences want the same old thing, no matter how much conventional Hollywood tells… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think conventional wisdom is that time is not on our side. But there are a number of members of Congress who… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of… — William Kentridge 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
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
Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path. — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
I can tell you many reasons why environmental stories don't get adequate attention in conventional media. Basically, environmental risks don't fit the… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
I think maybe even one of the reasons I became an actor was actually to hide. I mean, it sounds paradoxical because,… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
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