Convention Quotes · Page 3

“I had never done anything yet that was conventional – why should the love of my life be any different?”

— Sara Sheridan

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

— David Brinkley

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

— Stewart Brand

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

— Karen Horney

what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?

— Erica Jong

The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.

— James Madison

For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

— Virginia Woolf

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

— Murray Kempton

I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you…

— Gary Bauer

“He pulled back the sleeve of his jacket and glanced at his vintage watch tick away the seconds in a conventional way,…

— Bruce Crown

If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation.…

— Charles Albert Gobat

Fashion has always been in conflict with convention. Style involves some knowledge of both. But you can pretty much forget these seasonal…

— Russell Smith

Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

A rigged convention is one with the other man's delegates in control. An open convention is when your delegates are in control.

— James Farley

I've just got into the convention circuit in the last couple of years and it's great to see all these people who…

— Gil Gerard

“I look at a Sensual Lifestyle like the entrepreneur's life. We are innovative, risk-taking, and constantly in conflict with convention. Ask me…

— Lebo Grand

When I was getting ready for the release of 'Deadline,' when it was coming out soon, I decided that the appropriate way…

— Seanan McGuire

We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries…

— Robert Webb

No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Three times a year, there's Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial…

— Rich Sommer

“If our thoughts are slumping down into a muddling pie of oblivion, we must empower our minds to go beyond vain details…

— Erik Pevernagie

A chief justice's authority is really quite limited, and the dynamic among all the justices is going to affect whether he can…

— John Roberts

Our party is - we don't have the problems that the other party has. We're not divided. We don't have to worry…

— David Axelrod

“If tonight teaches us anything, it is that convention has held us back. We have bowed at the altar of caution and…

— Zohran Mamdani

No convention on God's foot-stool can, or has a right to, run me and make anything but a Democrat out of me.

— Melville Fuller

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

— Dave Mustaine

I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.

— Quentin Crisp

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.

— Trevor Baylis

Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.

— Mason Cooley

“...convention [is] the most subtle but oppressive dictator. [Edith 'Ditte' Thompson]”

— Pip Williams

I've always read a lot of sci-fi. When my son was younger, I actually went to a 'Star Trek' convention.

— Blair Brown

“Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.”

— Dorothy Gambrell

“My religious beliefs also defied convention, leaning towards agnosticism and pandeism.”

— Alfred Tennyson

“If You're Going To Be Unconventional in an area of your life, try to be conventional in all other areas”

— JB Rhine

I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to.

— Thayer David

In 1980, I watched my first Republican convention with my grandfather.

— Marco Rubio

Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as 'Burning Man' in Nevada? Is there time to change this?

— Grover Norquist

“To be called insane: challenge convention. To be called possessed: challenge religion.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.

— Mary Cheney

I'll never forget my first moment of looking out on a convention audience with my mouth open like they were kidding me.

— Robert Picardo