Conventional Quotes - page 4

People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to lose. It's always the most conventional things that contain the largest measure of madness. (Javier Marías)
The subsistence level is only a conventional idea, and conventions change. View quote
Arthur Lewis
The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
My childhood was as conventional as you could get. View quote
Lauren Groff
When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more. View quote
Mayim Bialik
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 office films. View quote
Laura Dern
Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming. View quote
Peter Mayhew
The conventional wisdom is often wrong. View quote
Steven D. Levitt
Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job,and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it. View quote
Alice S Rossi
I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes. View quote
Anna Chancellor
I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing. (Annie Baker)
Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone. View quote
Ariel Gore
It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. View quote
Adam Schiff
People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do. View quote
Bill Laswell
Every time I would give a talk, someone would say, 'You ought to go into politics.' I prefer to call it government leadership. My life has taken me to places where I have experiences that I think I can share. A lot of times, we see people who are career politicians. I'm not the conventional candidate, nor do I want to be. View quote
Brad Wenstrup
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire. View quote
Carroll O'Connor
Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins. View quote
David Limbaugh
Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives. View quote
Dan Barber
I really don't think records should be made in the manner where you sit and write, and when you're finished writing, you start recording. That just seems conventional and old-fashioned to me. View quote
Jay Reatard
I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on. View quote
Maria Bartiromo
You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really. (Martin Fleischmann)
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake. View quote
Nick Clooney
I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it. View quote
Om Puri
It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work. View quote
Robert Jay Lifton
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment. View quote
Steve Albini