A woman who knew her own mind and scorned the conventions of polite society. We were going to get along just fine.

The wizards represent all that the true ‘muggle’ most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!

Even if you come up with a conventional script, directors face several issues in convincing people to get on board

Baseball is a conversation between generations, a link to the past, and a bridge to the future

As Is Conventional. Everybody Does The Same Thing. No One Ever Pushes The Box

Rap Is Really Just Too Conventional. Everybody Does The Same Thing. No One Ever Pushes The Box

The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves – hence, they reinvent the world around them.

All we wanted to do was to build a conventional engine, only one that would be outstanding.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.

If I convert, it’s because it’s better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This ability is not measured by any of our conventional yardsticks of economic success; yet, is the final measurement.

I’ve spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.

No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.

If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines that everybody else is saying, or else you say something which in fact is true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

Mere instruction to memorise data is empty. The attempt to enforce conventional mediocrity on the young is criminal.