Conventional Quotes

432 quotes by 390 authors

Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science… — Carl Sagan
You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the… — Henry James
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place… — Carl Sagan
The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more… — Ian Fleming
We're up against the conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to the White House.… — Barack Obama
All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life,… — Anne Sexton
Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional. — Vladimir Nabokov
When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through the night can… — Stephen King
Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.… — Charles Dickens
A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties',… — Florence Nightingale
Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning? — Elizabeth von Arnim
Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It… — Iain Banks
By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die,… — John Berendt
I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual… — Robert A. Heinlein
...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality, the upheaval of… — Janet Frame
Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and… — Charles Robert Maturin
The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come… — Freeman Dyson
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you — Charlotte Bronte
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what… — Alfred Hitchcock

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