“Public opinion is to an unconventional idea … what abortion is to sperm.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention. — Malcolm Gladwell 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
In his tub-thumping speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Romney sounded like the hedge-fund tycoon he is. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it. — George Takei Copy Share Image
“Most self-employed people remain slaves to the employed’s working hours.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There's a better chance of a brokered convention than any time in our lifetime. — Renee Montagne 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
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 have never done Cult TV before, the convention was good. It gives the fans a chance to meet the celebrities. Connect… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in… — Stanley Marcus 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
As I discovered, even the governor of a major state who holds pro-life views can be denied a hearing at his party's… — Robert Casey 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
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
“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
“I have been thinking that the social moulds civilisation fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the… — Thomas Hardy 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
Do one of three things. One, go and find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
The American people get to express themselves, and in the ways that they choose. But I have got to tell you, I… — Mike Pence 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
“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
“... 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
“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
“I'm convinced that the best solutions are often the ones that are counterintuitive - that challenge conventional thinking - and end in… — Nathaniel J. Wyeth Copy Share Image
“Our mother tongue, so far ahead of me, Displays her goods, hints at each bond and link, Provides the means, leaves it… — Ivor A. Richards Copy Share Image
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