#conventional

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

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves. ↗

— Timothy West

#characters #conventional #know #more #playwright

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous. ↗

— Graham Greene

#almost #conventional #good #good man #himself

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily. ↗

— Andre Breton

#easily #even #exaltation #experienced #feeling

Conventionality is not morality. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#morality

I lead a very conventional life. ↗

— Joan Didion

#i #lead #life #very

I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#because #conventional #dream #i #identified

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

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#centers #considered #conventional #different #different areas

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