Conventionally Pretty Quotes

#1. I think it's ridiculous that you need to look a certain way to be conventionally pretty.

Kristen Stewart

#2. Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols.

Marshall McLuhan

#3. The doc watched her go, and then said, very softly, "don't let it happen."
"Sorry?"
Samedi yanked his head back on, and once it was in place, looked at me very seriously. "Just ... don't let it happen."
He shuffled off into the other lab then, leaving me to stew in his words.

Lia Habel

#4. Innovation transforms the useful seeds of invention into widely adopted solutions valued above every existing alternative.

Braden Kelley

#5. So, he eagerly drove from Basel to Bayreuth before the festival began to watch the last rehearsals of The Ring Cycle. As he watched, it hit him like Odin's bowel movement: the opera was shit.

Dylan Callens

#6. The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the equations don't work.

Brian Greene

#7. Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.

Chuck Mangione

#8. Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.

Patricia C. Wrede

#9. I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

Helen Keller

#10. Fear is passion in a negative direction.

Debora M. Coty