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Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.
— Vladimir Nabokov
To shoot a conventional film means that you are always covering yourself. You are putting nets and, in a way, letting bad decisions take over.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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 ...
— Katharine Whitehorn
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
— Golda Meir
I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.
— Timothy White
Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.
— Gautama Buddha
One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.
— Harold Holzer
She thought him invertebrate and conventional.
— E. M. Forster
Jefferson attributes to a college professor and mentor his lifelong habit of questioning conventional wisdom.
— John Ferling
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conventional wisdom in Galbraith's view must be simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting - though not necessarily true.
— Steven D. Levitt
The English patrician bloomed in his natural climate.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
I have some problems with conventional organized religion.
— J.K. Rowling
I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
— Pamela Sue Martin
There are no conventional games involving conditions of uncertainty without risk.
— Richard Arnold Epstein
Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.
— Jacques Derrida
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
— Walter Savage Landor
Conventional wisdom tells us not to dwell in the past. I believe, however, that we should hold hands with it.
— Dana Glossbrenner
A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.
— P. J. O'Rourke
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
— Jonathan Swift
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.
— Maria Bartiromo
Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues.
— David Ogilvy
I'm very conventional compared to my parents.
— Bryce Dallas Howard
It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
— Zelda Fitzgerald
Change will happen slowly, however, unless women refuse to submit to conventional practices and begin to trust their own bodies.
— Janet Balaskas
Conventional cancer therapy is so toxic and dehumanizing that I fear it far more than I fear death from cancer.
— Julian Whitaker
To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
— Carly Fiorina
Amazon makes money differently from a conventional publisher. It is an infrastructure player.
— Nick Harkaway
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
— Carroll O'Connor
Because of its shortcomings - driving range, cost, and recharging time - the electric vehicle is not a viable replacement for most conventional cars.
— Takeshi Uchiyamada
On a conventional film, you do one take, and if it's good, they say, 'Let's do another one for insurance.'
— Rhys Ifans
if you challenge the conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done.
— Michael Lewis
A whole nation cannot rise above itself.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
— Victor Davis Hanson
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
— Anna Quindlen
He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.
— Michael Lewis
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
— Barbara Mertz
Going down on a woman gives me a stiff neck, going down on a man gives me lockjaw and conventional sex gives me claustrophobia.
— Tallulah Bankhead
Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?
— Simon Doonan
It's OK to not be fine.
— Frasier Crane
Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty
— John Howard Griffin
Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
The beaten path can be a busy and distracting place.
— Richard Brookhiser
With '44 Scotland Street' I found myself having to work out how a daily novel works, and it is completely different to a conventional novel.
— Alexander McCall Smith
It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.
— Richard Bach
Insight is the deep intuitive understanding of things, and it often breaks through the conventional wisdom.
— Pearl Zhu
Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.
— Therese Fowler
Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming.
— Peter Mayhew
Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Switters had always seemed to take a both/and approach to life, as opposed to the more conventional and restrictive either/or.
— Tom Robbins
The true stature of a great work may not at first be recognized by those of a more conventional cast of mind.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Our English monarchs are so unimaginative," said Eldric. "They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.
— Franny Billingsley
The figure had emerged from a lightless region where everything we have been taught, all the conventional feelings, do not apply.
— William S. Burroughs
I grew up as an athlete doing judo, so I didn't really have a conventional, feminine body type.
— Ronda Rousey
A conventional crime story is simple - it's just a corpse in the river or something, and a detective with an alcohol problem.
— David Lagercrantz
Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of torturous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge.
— Rebecca Goldstein
Conventional cancer treatments are in place as the law of the land because they pay, not heal, the best.
— John Diamond
When it comes to the treatment of autoimmune conditions, conventional medicine has failed miserably.
— Amy Myers
Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.
— Paul Fussell
The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.
— Pat Conroy
Christianity has become so respectable and so conventional that it is now insipid. The salt has lost its flavor.
— Billy Graham
You can email me, but I prefer letters that come through conventional mail. I like letters that have been licked by strangers.
— David Letterman
Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice.
— Edith Hamilton
The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Forming culture is not a one-time event.
— Matt Chandler
Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas.
— John Anthony West
New ideas can be supremely bad ideas, and by the time people realize how bad they are, it is sometimes difficult to get rid of them.
— Alister E. McGrath
If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.
— Muriel Spark
I think I'm a difficult conventional writer.
— Tom Stoppard
Weeks passed, my suitcase grew more and more conventional. "I've got something for you," I'd say to a teenager. "It's nothing huge,
— David Sedaris
Can you make me remember the conventional way?
— Jodi Ellen Malpas
Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.
— Jack Kirby
I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.
— Marian Engel
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.
— Orson Welles
I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.
— Anna Chancellor
