Conventional Person Quotes

#1. I gave up being a conventional person a long time ago. Things have been so much more exciting since I did.

Dolores Hitchens

#2. I am a traditionalist, I'm not a conventional person, but I am a traditionalist in the true form of the word, in that your heart is opening, you're absolutely there for everyone, the face of pain has no tradition, by the way, and in my tradition, a guru simply means the removal of darkness.

Maya Tiwari

#3. Ask a conventional person for an answer, and you are likely to get it; ask for a reason for his answer, and you are likely to get a punch in the mouth.

John Mark Reynolds

#4. Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too.

Jurgen Habermas

#5. In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.

Joe DiMaggio

#6. I don't believe there's such a thing as conventional love. Love is bending. Love is breaking. Love is constantly learning about the other person until you go crazy because it will never be perfect, but there's no fault in trying. I've loved a boy who was extraordinary beyond words, in my eyes.

Amber L. Johnson

#7. Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic.

Desmond Tutu

#8. What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent.

Meghan Daum

#9. When you'r no longer identified with roles and labels and conventional definition of person

U.G. Krishnamurti

#10. It was the first time in years I didn't wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.

Ally Carter

#11. The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.

Chogyam Trungpa

#12. Your firstborn son, Claudius, was all a man could hope for - a son better and wiser than his father.

Pierce Brown

#13. We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional ... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside.

Paula Modersohn-Becker

#14. Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.

Zoe Saldana

#15. That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.

Felicia Day

#16. my digs look as if they've been dug

David Nicholls

#17. God's purpose for our lives is our calling

Sunday Adelaja

#18. I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.

Marilyn Manson

#19. I see a lot of nice hotels, but I never really get to enjoy the cities, because I have to be on a plane the next day.

Gabriel Iglesias

#20. I'm not a religious person. I don't have any desire. To me it's imitative of a conventional culture. I'm all for it for anybody. I totally have a free and open feeling about how other humans want to live their lives. It's just not something that has any real significance for me.

Lily Tomlin

#21. Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years

FM-2030

#22. Not everyone wants this conventional little life you're rowing your boat toward. I like my river of fire. And when it's time for me to go I fully intend to roll off my one-person dinghy into the flames and be consumed. I'm not afraid.

Zadie Smith

#23. I've been with the same person for a very long time but I'm just non-conventional in that way. I don't think people need to be married. I think a lot of people need that piece of paper, but I don't think everybody needs that to feel secure.

Eva Mendes

#24. I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.

Vinod Khosla

#25. Civilized nations build libraries; lands that have lost their soul close them down.

Toby Forward

#26. I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.

Kangana Ranaut

#27. There is a light that shines in the darkness, which is only visible there.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#28. The other, more serious problem associated with cosmetic surgery is that conventional treatments often give people a very unnatural, blank, or stretched look. Wiping all the character from a person's face is the most profound form of identity theft I can imagine.

Marie-Veronique Nadeau

#29. I was very aware of performers who have a persona, whether it's Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith or Lydia Lunch, and I'm just this middle-class girl coming from a more conventional upbringing, this California person. But in a way I felt like it's important to represent the normal.

Kim Gordon

#30. A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.

Vladimir Nabokov

#31. I knew pain. Intimately. I'd welcomed it at times because it meant I could still feel, that I wasn't completely frozen.

Julie Kagawa

#32. If you are the kind of person who listens to conservative advice, you may do okay in life, but you probably won't ever be a fantastic leader. You have to take risks, and you also have to go against conventional wisdom, because conventional wisdom doesn't make for startling advances in society.

Ruth Simmons

#33. At the time I was only twenty-four. My life was even then gloomy, ill-regulated, and as solitary as that of a savage. I made friends with no one and positively avoided talking, and buried myself more and more in my hole.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#34. The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

Bertrand Russell

#35. Shooting a television show can be very difficult and at times can really wear on you. If you keep reminding yourself that it is a job and you show up together as a team and as a whole, you can prevail.

David Boreanaz

#36. A noble journey through the travails of time calls for a person to disregard conventional social, cultural, and moral contexts and strive to cleave a personal meaning that guides their existence.

Kilroy J. Oldster