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
Every time I would give a talk, someone would say, 'You ought to go into politics.' I prefer to call it government… — Brad Wenstrup Copy Share Image
The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a… — James Gray Copy Share Image
We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers. — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The real scientific study of the distribution of wealth has, we must confess, scarcely begun. The conventional academic study of the so-called… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are… — A. J. P. Taylor 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
The problem in our society is the ego psychology and conventional wisdom about "look out for #1." That conventional wisdom thinks that… — Robert Thurman 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
So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you remain conventional and don't change, you'll get along. You'll get along in the limited forms of insanity that exist out… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Ah! In fact there are two moralities ... The petty one, the conventional one, the one devised by men, that keeps changing… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
In the beginning, Adam — not Eve— was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Contrary to conventional… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We must make organic the conventional choice and not the exception available only to the rich and educated. — Maria Rodale Copy Share Image
In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
The early pioneers of both wellness and network marketing were motivated by the sense that it was possible to create a better… — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
If you are the kind of person who listens to conservative advice, you may do okay in life, but you probably won't… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
Personally, I've realized that the tradition I thought of as too safe, too pretty, and too conventional is the space where women… — Ann Powers Copy Share Image
Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
