Conventional Quotes

432 Conventional quotes by 390 unique authors

I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel,… — Flannery O'Connor
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet… — Ernest Hemingway
We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process… — Henry A. Kissinger
The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My… — David Lloyd George
The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just… — Ricardo Semler
Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within the next four… — Deval Patrick
Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps was revived in… — Eric Kierans
Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue. — Unknown Author
Among the hundreds of so-called "UFO reports" each year, a sizable fraction of those clearly observed by reputable witnesses remain unexplained-and difficult to explain in… — Richard Hall
Regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral Anderson...recovered an unidentified airplane off the coast of California...with… — George C. Marshall
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily… — Stephen Batchelor
I like suggesting that ‘we are slaves to the objects around us,’ that ‘plenty should be enough,’ or that the ‘buyer should beware,’ within the… — Barbara Kruger
I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box… — Laura Dern
A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact. Frankly, I'm still trying… — Sean Penn
I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it… — Alan Cumming
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 clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms,… — Unknown Author
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

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