Conventional Quotes

432 quotes by 390 authors

I'm kind of horny, conventional methods of making love kind of bore me. — LL Cool J
For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn't an ingenue… — Linda Hunt
The Keystone XL project has built strong safety measures into its design with the newest technology. Additionally, 80 percent of the new Canadian oil sands… — John Hoeven
It takes heart to be a guerrilla warrior because youâ€™re on your own.Â In conventional warfare you have tanks and a whole lot of other people… — Malcolm X
My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but we… — Julia Child
Even if conventional medicine tells you that your condition is incurable or that your only option is to live a life dependent on drugs with… — Leon Chaitow
Some `advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is a delusion; if… — Bertrand Russell
Some people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have been thought of...… — Edward de Bono
All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. — Paul Gauguin
I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may… — Ansel Adams
If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional than… — Auguste Rodin
Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever… — Rollo May
If form is mechanically applied, it may indeed result in work that is conventional, if not pedantic or stupid. But form used well can become… — Stephen Nachmanovitch
Oils of cinnamon and eucalyptus are as powerful against some microorganisms as conventional antibiotics, and are especially effective against flus. Sandalwood oil from Mysore, India,… — Robert Tisserand
I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not… — Karen Thompson Walker
The most conventional statements are both true and welcome. — Judith Martin
Conventional cancer therapy is so toxic and dehumanizing that I fear it far more than I fear death from cancer. — Julian Whitaker
Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place… — George Friedman
Anyone who was a rebel at one time in life cannot return to being conventional. — Elsa Peretti
Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling. It takes all… — Amos Bronson Alcott

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