Conventional Quotes

When plants are growing, they sense how big a root system they have to produce to draw from the soil the nutrients and moisture they need to grow and reach maturity and reproduce. On a conventional farm where there are high levels of fertilizer nutrients in the soil, along with lots of water, there is little incentive for roots to penetrate far. - Charles Benbrook

When people are looking for federal judges, they're looking for people who are safe, sound and reliable. These are criteria that favor people who have chosen conventional careers in the law. - Robert Gordon

When I first came to the planning department, I was considering a conventional layout. While I was there city staff members made me aware of the transition zoning that is now available in some parts of the city. I embraced the concept and came back with this proposal. - Cary Clarke

When an industry recovers, it's not unusual to get companies that postponed their decisions to return to the market. I think the conventional wisdom is they will go ahead with this. - Jay Ritter

What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base. - John Avlon

What you find is that the U.S. Supreme Court very seldom if ever marches very far from the conventional thinking of contemporary society. They pay attention and are infected by mainstream thinking of what's moral and what's right and what's just. - Bruce Fein

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it. - George Weinberg

What we saw was when you looked at these good, large studies, you did no longer see an effect for homeopathy, whereas you still saw an effect for conventional medicine. - Matthias Egger