#convent

Creative people, especially those who are just starting out, feel that they have to conform and be a mass-produced product in order to be noticed. The truth of the matter is that genuineness and unconventionality is often what helps make a mark on the world. ↗

— Veronika Carnaby

#inspirational #unconventional #veronika-carnaby #inspirational

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#shocks #today #tomorrow

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment. ↗

— Steve Albini

#conventional wisdom #doubt #experiment #reason #unless

With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office. ↗

— Louis Auchincloss

#brow #brown #clean #committee #conventions

The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur. ↗

— John Corry

#conventional #delicate #flying #glass #gothic

I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work. ↗

— Chris Cornell

#did #ever #expect #go #guitar

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention. ↗

— Wilhelm Keitel

#anything #conduct #convention #geneva #geneva convention

I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to. ↗

— Thayer David

#anything #convention #established #i #i think

When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this. ↗

— Susan Estrich

#bad #behind #convention #enthusiastic #even

It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out. ↗

— Dana Fox

#been #comedy #conventions #days #harder