Conventions are, by nature, a party. I mean, that's why people become delegates. They come from all over the world to exercise… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
My art gives contemporary art a juvenile-delinquent phase. Its self-made style gleefully trashes conventions of beauty and society while pick-pocketing from the… — Steve Olson Copy Share Image
The drafters of the [Refugee Convention ] had the Cold War in mind and mainly sought to protect a few thousand dissidents… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write.… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable -… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
I might be at a point where I don't want to go with a genre convention but I have to produce some… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning,… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
The immaterial told me that I was indeed an occidental, a right-thinking Christian who believes in the 'Resurrection of the flesh'. A… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The people who are showing up [on the Republican National Convention ], either they are ones who actually believe in Donald Trump,… — Mark Colvin Copy Share Image
Most people don’t really want to think independently or make decisions; they’re herd animals with herd instincts to keep to the middle… — Blanche Barton Copy Share Image
I think my favourite thing about doing conventions is the parents taking their kids to see their favourite drag idols, because open-minded,… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to think [Ted] Cruz had a good convention, that if [Donald] Trump goes down, Cruz is pretty well positioned to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Ixion exists as an antidote to the rules and conventions of other places. We believe that indulging in pleasure will make better… — Marianne de Pierres Copy Share Image
That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
Who on earth invented the silly convention that it is boring or impolite to talk shop? Nothing is more interesting to listen… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
At home, I have lot of pictures from 'The Walking Dead' and some stuff from comic books. At comic conventions, people will… — Chandler Riggs Copy Share Image
Science fiction fans are awesome - they love you so much that they'll watch anything you do, even if it's complete crap.… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
I think many people (like myself) prefer to read poetry mixed with prose; it gives you more to go by; the conventions… — William Empson Copy Share Image
Always listen to yourself. It is better to be wrong than to simply follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
At 18, I got a publishing deal, so I was like, 'I can do this for real and not go to college.'… — Meghan Trainor Copy Share Image
I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
I'd rather violate every one of the damn conventions and see my bills passed, than sit back in my office, all nice… — Huey Long Copy Share Image
If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Look, this CPAC convention is increasingly the Star Wars bar scene of the conservative movement. All that’s missing from that convention is… — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made… — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and… — Charles Guggenheim Copy Share Image
It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
[Democratic National Convention] was high, it was exciting. The hotel that I stayed at, they had music in the lobby and [Hillary]… — MC Lyte Copy Share Image
As a mom, what I found so disturbing were the things that were being said on a national stage - I mean,… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
I think it's been time for a new party. I think it's time for two new parties. If you watch the Democratic… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
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![“The people who are showing up [on the Republican National Convention ], either they are ones who actually believe in Donald Trump, or they think there's enough they care about, sort of keeping the party afloat and avoiding a sweeping loss in the centre of the house, they're going to show up and…” quote by Mark Colvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/be8/mark-colvin-45236_avoiding_the-people-who-are-showing-up-on-the-rep_2816868.jpg)
![“I'm beginning to think [Ted] Cruz had a good convention, that if [Donald] Trump goes down, Cruz is pretty well positioned to be the Republican major figure in four, six or even within two years.” quote by David Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9de/david-brooks-644_conventions_i-m-beginning-to-think-ted-cruz-had-a-go_674746.jpg)
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