Best Conventionally Quotes

47 Conventionally quotes by 43 unique authors

I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American. — Steve Vai
If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held… — Bertrand Russell
Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you are not aware… — Lionel Shriver
Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press — Warren Buffett
Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day… — George Bernard Shaw
You did not so much mind being -conventionally- betrayed, if you were not kept in the dark, which was humiliating, or defined only as a… — A. S. Byatt
Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards. — Chris Guillebeau
Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others — William Gibson
Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other… — A. S. Byatt
It's the things that aren't accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive. — Marc Jacobs
She was--I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is--one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive,… — Aidan Chambers
I think it's ridiculous that you need to look a certain way to be conventionally pretty. — Kristen Stewart
I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please - a little less… — Kurt Vonnegut
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact… — Henri Bergson
What a person feels within themselves and about themselves radiates from them. Trust me, I have worked with people - both men and women -… — Amanda Schull
In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge… — Bat for Lashes
I am not conventionally religious, but I am an ongoing student of the Old and the New Testament and the history of the Jewish people… — Robert Littell
Where I work, in the Arab region, people are busy taking up Western innovations and changing them into things which are neither conventionally Western, nor… — Shereen El Feki
Luckily, there is a wind of change happening in Hindi cinema. Good work is coming to people who are not conventionally good looking like Ranbir… — Madhur Mittal
The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that such men are… — Bertrand Russell
I am Harriet Rosenstein. The line you and many other sites choose to quote is part of an ironic passage in a review I wrote… — Harriet Rosenstein
Symbols have one characteristic in common with signs; they point beyond themselves to something else. The red sign at the street corner points to the… — Paul Tillich

Who Wrote These Conventionally Quotes

43 authors contributed a total of 47 Conventionally Quotes, led by these top contributors: