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All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can’t build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out (Conventional Quotes)
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus the mystic who tries to speak logically and formally of unity consciousness is doomed to sound very paradoxical or contradictory. The problem is that the structure of any language cannot grasp the nature of unity consciousness, any more than a fork could grasp the ocean (Conventional Quotes)
Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does (Conventional Quotes)
I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative (Conventional Quotes)
Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there’s more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you’re bankrupt (Conventional Quotes)
Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience (Conventional Quotes)
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous (Conventional Quotes)
There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue (Conventional Quotes)
Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness (Conventional Quotes)
Even though you may have started out saying you wanted imaginative, novel ideas, the tendency to drift back into the conventional is powerful (Conventional Quotes)
The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective (Conventional Quotes)
I don’t know what I am, darling. I’ve tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic. and the others give me either stiff neck or lockjaw (Conventional Quotes)
Create a vision and never let the environment, other people’s beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom (Conventional Quotes)
When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more? (Conventional Quotes)
The study of human societies and economics is of great importance, and it is not the purpose of the book to suggest otherwise. Rather it is to argue that conventional economics offers a very misleading view of how the world actually operates, and that it needs to be replaced (Conventional Quotes)
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it’s no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both (Conventional Quotes)
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts (Conventional Quotes)
What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines (Conventional Quotes)
Because of its shortcomings - driving range, cost, and recharging time - the electric vehicle is not a viable replacement for most conventional cars (Conventional Quotes)
It’s not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that’s what I do with all my stories (Conventional Quotes)
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things (Conventional Quotes)
We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival (Conventional Quotes)
Never accept conventional wisdom when it comes to finance. If others keep failing, why do you want to follow them? (Conventional Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously (Conventional Quotes)
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake (Conventional Quotes)
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 (Conventional Quotes)
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire (Conventional Quotes)
Raising a child is a little like Picasso’s work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat (Conventional Quotes)
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him (Conventional Quotes)