Quotes of: Conventional-wisdom Keyword

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Sienna Guillory

That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them.

John Yoo

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

John Yoo

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

I have failed 'Star Wars' trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms that I've never heard of.

Mark Hamill

Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.

Muhammad Yunus

I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

Natalie Dormer

I have never done Cult TV before, the convention was good. It gives the fans a chance to meet the celebrities. Connect with the guy that used to be a bunch of coloured dots on your TV screen.

Peter Tork

The Saudi government uses a lot of British equipment to suppress their own people. But we're happy for our politicians to go on advertising trips to Saudi, selling our weapons at the trade conventions.

Paul Conroy

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

Christopher Lasch

I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.

Adam Green

Now, national conventions are largely an excuse for companies and party leaders to throw parties for delegates to attend, to network and have a good time.

Bob Barr

I chaired the 1982 Democratic Party Commission on Presidential Nominations that created certain automatic delegates to the Democratic convention - the 'superdelegates.' It was a good idea then, and it is still a good idea.

Jim Hunt

When you're about to get married, and then you're not, it's all a big shock. You think, 'Well, okay, so I'm never going to lead a totally conventional life now.'

Rosamund Pike

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

Florence King

If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they get.

Clint Eastwood

When I graduated I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want a conventional career.

Charlie Trotter

I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.

Daniel Okrent

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

George Santayana

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.

John Fiske

Sally: My God! It's enough to drive a girl into a convent! Do they have Jewish nuns?

Cabaret