I think that the person who is going to be nominated will be nominated by the convention. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Public opinion is to an unconventional idea … what abortion is to sperm.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth. — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential. — Tama J. Kieves Copy Share Image
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention. — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
I have friends who are majorly into the cosplay culture and have urged me to go to a convention for no other… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention.… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
I like taking genres and subverting them. I did that with 'In the Valley of Elah.' I said, 'Okay, this is just… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being… — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
Sarah Vaughan is one of my greatest heroes. She personifies what an artist is all about, taking risks, daring to go beyond… — Claron McFadden Copy Share Image
There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion.… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late '80s. I hadn't gone to a convention before… — Persis Khambatta Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, I started doing music performances with a lot of theatrical aspects to them, where humor was a part… — Aleksey Igudesman Copy Share Image
“Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophical life as well as his… — Konrad Zuse Copy Share Image
“Everyone had been so much more entertaining then. What had happened? Age, he guessed, And with it: Jobs. Money. Children. The things… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Defense, it is clear, is not enough. To find an answer, we decided to mount the most intensive consultation process in the… — Michael R. Bloomberg Copy Share Image
For many years I have advocated 'redesigning Parliament' in a variety of ways - elect the Senate, do away with the 'confidence… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
The initial attraction of a political convention was that often the outcome was not preordained. There was at least some element of… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
You can expect to see a robust discussion and representation of those issues throughout the convention program. Not just from the nominee,… — Leah D. Daughtry Copy Share Image
“But what if, either by choice or by reluctant necessity, you end up not participating in this comforting cycle of family and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
“He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood on a platform… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“... as a convention, you get up and walk to the window to make the audience believe that you're looking out. It's… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
“It is natural to care for those who have cared for us, but at the point a man has been dead a… — Joshua Gibbs Copy Share Image
“Anyhow, whether undergraduate or shop boy, man or woman, it must come as a shock about the age of twenty—the world of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of the twenty-first century, to feel alone or want to be alone is deeply unfashionable: to admit to feeling… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“In actual fact, conventions are the death of real tradition as they are of all real life. They are parasites which attach… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
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