Conventional Quotes

432 quotes by 396 authors

I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I was very conventional because I came from a conventional family and I didn't… — Jane Birkin
I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going… — Madonna Ciccone
I'm not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be. — Tim Curry
Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming. — Peter Mayhew
I've been with the same person for a very long time but I'm just non-conventional in that way. I don't think people need to be… — Eva Mendes
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left. — Arianna Huffington
Because investors are not usually penalized for adhering to conventional practices, doing so is the less professionally risky strategy, even though it virtually guarantees against… — Seth Klarman
Users of clichÃ©s frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms,… — Patrick Cockburn
I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art… — Hedy Lamarr
I think conventional wisdom is that time is not on our side. But there are a number of members of Congress who have primaries and… — John McCain
Saddam Hussein had a lengthy history of reckless and sudden aggression. He cultivated ties to terror -- hosting the Abu Nidal organization, supporting terrorists, and… — Dick Cheney
It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go… — Anita Brookner
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he… — Archibald MacLeish
If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your… — Molly Ringwald
The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation.… — Alison Lurie
People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of… — Robert Coover
Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the… — Edward Abbey
Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death. — Jacques Derrida
He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his… — Colin Powell
People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do. — Bill Laswell

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