Conventional Quotes

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses. - William Butler Yeats

Without our Brocade SAN, compliance would be a much more challenging exercise. The scalable solution allows us to easily store data flowing from our trading floor and electronic systems during the day, and then back up this information at night. If we used conventional direct-attach storage systems, warehousing this much information would be too laborious and unproductive. Moreover, thanks to our SAN, we no longer back up data over the production network, which had in the past, diminished bandwidth and slowed delivery of our business applications and resources. - Rich Ward

With my method, you learn how to move your entire body as if it was one snowboarding unit instead of a person on a snowboard. It takes practice, the balancing techniques. You can almost call it a discipline. I would say my students learn quicker than what they'd learn in the conventional way. My method is that you are taught how to move as if the snowboard is a part of you. - Danny Martin

With all the stuff that they do up front, it's kind of unconventional how they walk around, so I think the run game is going to be the big thing this week. - DJ Shockley

With a conventional hand saw, the faster and harder you push, the more the saw digs into the wood and jams. With our saw, the harder you pull, the faster it cuts. It is possible to cut through a 4-inch diameter branch in 12 seconds or less. - Larry Deck

While further research is needed, our findings suggest that it may be beneficial to use erlotinib, a relatively non-toxic targeted agent, to initially treat patients with advanced lung cancer, rather than use conventional chemotherapy regimens. - Bruce Johnson

Whether one calls oneself conservative or revolutionary, whether one composers in a conventional or progressive manner, whether one tries to imitate old styles or is destined to express new ideas - one must be convinced of the infallibility of one's own fantasy and one must believe in one's own inspiration. - Arnold Schoenberg

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman. - Betty Friedan