Convention Quotes · Page 3

I think that the person who is going to be nominated will be nominated by the convention.

— Marco Rubio

A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Public opinion is to an unconventional idea … what abortion is to sperm.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.

— Radclyffe Hall

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

— Franz Schubert

The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential.

— Tama J. Kieves

[Democratic National Convention] was high, it was exciting. The hotel that I stayed at, they had music in the lobby and [Hillary]…

— MC Lyte

I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway…

— Linda McCartney

We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.

— Romano Prodi

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

But this convention is about more than re-nominating President Obama. It's about Americans coming together to build one economy - not from…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

I have never done Cult TV before, the convention was good. It gives the fans a chance to meet the celebrities. Connect…

— Peter Tork

Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in…

— Stanley Marcus

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

— Gary Bauer

For many years I have advocated 'redesigning Parliament' in a variety of ways - elect the Senate, do away with the 'confidence…

— Preston Manning

The initial attraction of a political convention was that often the outcome was not preordained. There was at least some element of…

— Mark McKinnon

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

“I have been thinking that the social moulds civilisation fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the…

— Thomas Hardy

From the very beginning, I started doing music performances with a lot of theatrical aspects to them, where humor was a part…

— Aleksey Igudesman

“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

“Everyone had been so much more entertaining then. What had happened? Age, he guessed, And with it: Jobs. Money. Children. The things…

— Hanya Yanagihara

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

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

I always rate a convention by the lack of blisters from twiddling my thumbs.

— George Perez

Politics is quite draining. There are so many heated discussions and press conferences to cover during a convention.

— Megan Alexander

I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.

— Elvis Mitchell

The difference between a GOP convention and Comic-Con is that the people at Comic-Con have a much firmer grasp of reality.

— Bill Maher

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

— Alan Watts

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

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

— Mary Cheney

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“...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

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

— JB Rhine

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

— Alfred Tennyson