Conventional Quotes

432 quotes by 390 authors

I'm not a conventional guy. I've never been a conventional guy. — Dontrelle Willis
You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say… — Anne Bernays
It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional… — Willa Cather
It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really… — Robert Jay Lifton
The EPA's greenhouse gas regulations, along with a host of other onerous regulations, are unnecessarily driving out conventional fuels as part of America's energy mix.… — Gina McCarthy
Suddenly, I saw it in a new way, as a picture that offered me a new view, free of all the conventional criteria I had… — Gerhard Richter
I wanted to say something different: the pictures are also a leave-taking, in several respects. Factually: these specific persons are dead; as a general statement,… — Gerhard Richter
Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently… — Albert Einstein
Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too… — John Major
Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio… — Susie Orbach
I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to be a woman… — Susie Orbach
Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone. — Ariel Gore
Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a… — Alastair Campbell
I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from reading a lot… — Steven Levitt
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean,… — Jacqueline Carey
I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to… — Annie Baker
I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take… — Maria Bartiromo
I don't like guys who are conventional. I'm an achiever; he has to be an achiever. I admire drive, I admire ambition. I like a… — Priyanka Chopra
I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as… — Natalie Dormer
In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city. — Olafur Eliasson

Who Wrote These Conventional Quotes

390 authors contributed a total of 432 Conventional Quotes, led by these top contributors: