Charlaine Harris Quotes

I'm not radical.

I'm mainstream.

I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.

Most people live their life around what other people do.

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.

I would say that I'm pretty mainstream.

What makes you the establishment is if you buy into it.

An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.

One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.

Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.

Well, it's not just money. I consider myself establishment right now. I'm borderline establishment, I'm hanging on by my toenails - but I'm establishment.

All my friends are super normal.

Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.

You cannot lay down a standard which all must follow.

...but it doesn't feel crazy to us. It feels like what we do.

Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.

He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.

I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.

We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.