The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese… — William D. Leahy Copy Share Image
Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein had a lengthy history of reckless and sudden aggression. He cultivated ties to terror -- hosting the Abu Nidal organization,… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that… — Warren Buffett 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
Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work… — Alice S Rossi Copy Share Image
I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of… — Wynn Bullock 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
One of the things that I think makes it hard in this society for us to tell the truth is the kind… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common,… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I started working when I was very young. I got an agent when I was 12, and fortunately was employed consistently from… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
I travel 250 days a year. There are chef friends who I only see every couple of years. By conventional standards I'm… — Anthony Bourdain 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
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 Copy Share Image
I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts. — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
The EPA's greenhouse gas regulations, along with a host of other onerous regulations, are unnecessarily driving out conventional fuels as part of… — Gina McCarthy Copy Share Image
Finally, this is one way to reconcile the delight in beauty with the bourgeois life. Aschenbach, on one reading, has spent virtually… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Challenge conventional wisdom. There is almost always a better way. — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
The intricate and different life cycles of both male and female root-heads, and the great behavioral sophistication shown by the female in… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. Let me then float an unconventional… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine. — Sienna Guillory Copy Share Image