#convention

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. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#big deal #both #conventional #deal #either

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. 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. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#badge #big #big deal #both #conventional

I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#conventional #delusional #finally #human #hypotheses

The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#computer #convenience #conventions #decisions #field

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#conventionality #death #development #every #gifts

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#always #conventional way #get #heartbreaking #i

Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have a foundation, the roof isn't going to stand. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#candidate #convention #foundation #going #having

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#arrested #been #chance #child-like #cocoon

It is conventional to call "monster" any blending of dissonant elements. I call "monster" every original inexhaustible beauty. ↗

— Alfred Jarry

#beauty #blending #call #conventional #elements

I like being unconventional. ↗

— Florence Griffith Joyner

#i #like #unconventional