#conventional

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#ceremonial #character #conventional #general #general character

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

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#days #i #i think #me #over

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

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

— Timothy West

#characters #conventional #know #more #playwright

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#bandit #between #conventional #deadly #georgia

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#conventional wisdom #enemy #events #ideas #march

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

#conventional #does #formulating #hope #left-wing