#convention

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

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#among #comes #conventional #kind #literacy

Being classy is my teenage rebellion. ↗

— Rebecca McKinsey

#convention #fashion #manners #rebellion #teenagers

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. ↗

— John Barrymore

#barrymore #conventional #dear #die #fellow

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#conventional wisdom #i #i can #manager #money

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life? ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#course #earth #life #most #succeed

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#boil #clinton #conventional #conventional wisdom #down

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did. ↗

— Bette Davis

#afraid #brought #conventions #did #end

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#come #community #conventional #eyes #indefinite

The Internet is a great place to find unconventional comedy that you can't find anywhere else. ↗

— Andy Dick

#comedy #else #find #great #internet

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#attitudes #away #beauty #because #certain