Conventional Quotes
The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.
Our English monarchs are so unimaginative,” said Eldric. “They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.
You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
I've chosen films that are different compared to the conventional Bollywood films we all know and love.
Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.
Like a lot of writers, I just got sick to death of conventional fiction. I absolutely couldn't stand the illusion of reality and plot. I just couldn't stomach it.
Certainly my films are cinematically unusual, and quite contemplative in their pacing compared to conventional films, but I think overall they are quite engaging, accessible, and even funny.
Our world was brutal, immoral, smug and conventional. We had unbounded contempt for all those who did not sin as we sinned.
I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real world to write one.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that many dance languages.
I'm really not working in a environment that's sonically pristine. It's not a conventional studio, obviously; it's a bit ramshackle.
Conventional cancer therapy is so toxic and dehumanizing that I fear it far more than I fear death from cancer.
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 the kind of fiction that I like to read.
As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things.
There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don't worry for that character.
Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.
I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school.
My businesses are usually built around challenging conventional wisdom, so I tend to gain by taking the other side. It's been very profitable and entertaining for me
Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.
It's more important that you eat vegetables, even if they are conventional -- I'm talking about for your health -- then it is until you wait until you can afford organic, or you can find organic.
Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is quite different.
I wonder if I would have been capable of producing anything if I worked in a more conventional way with a prewritten script, because I'm of the procrastinator class.
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 opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.
Well, I am not really a conventional mom at all. Like, I had my kids really young. I had Danny when I was 18 or 19 and then Liam when I was 23 and Molly, I had when I was a little older.
What I often forget about students, especially undergraduates, is that surface appearances are misleading. Most of them are at base as conventional as Presbyterian deacons.
The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.
My mom devotes so much of her time toward me. She's an artist, and my father is a doctor. I've been brought up in what you might call a pretty conventional family.
Statistically, you don't have much chance of becoming president if you're not tall and fairly handsome or at least conventional-looking.
A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called computer age.
A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.
Of course, people say maybe there are some self-published books out there that shouldn't be out there. Well, it's the same with conventional publishing.
Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
What the Depression teaches us is that when the economy is so depressed that even a zero interest rate isn't low enough, you have to put conventional notions of prudence and sound policy aside.
I think Donald Trump is new. He's a business guy running for president. So, you're not going to see a conventional campaign because he is not a conventional politician. He's not even a politician.
In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.
If Americans were attacked, it does change the equation. The problem is, is that with regard to this is there've been horrendous killings of civilians with conventional weapons.
There are no conventional games involving conditions of uncertainty without risk.
The world is always changed by people who don't listen to conventional wisdom. I think we often set our goals too small and try to accomplish them too quickly.
I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.