Literature may make the reader reexamine some of his or her own conventions, look at himself or herself in a different way,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus.… — Edward Robert Harrison Copy Share Image
I like playing the social convention. If you're in a period drama, there's always something dancing underneath the surface as a human… — Jenna Coleman Copy Share Image
My family was very engaged in the world around us. My father was an African Methodist Episcopal minister and an immigrant from… — Gwen Ifill 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
They [Oneida people] didn't want to fix problems one at a time. If someone invited them to a feminist convention, their answer… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The U.S. is telling the Northern Alliance to kill Taliban prisoners. It's totally a breach of all the known conventions of war.… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold, and according to convention, there is an… — Democritus Copy Share Image
I need to conduct myself differently in different communities. In my experience, the journalistic conventions - you know, I'm the reporter, you're… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
Whether a country is actually free is determined not by how well-rewarded its convention-affirming media elites are and how ignored its passive… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I really hate the creature film convention that says you have to wait until the end to see the monster. One hour… — Bong Joon-ho Copy Share Image
Britten's opera tends to see things in simpler terms. It portrays an Aschenbach who wants a richer form of sexual fulfillment, and… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better. — Jeremy Bulloch Copy Share Image
John Kerry is busy trying to raise money right now for his campaign. It was reported today that Kerry's hoping to raise… — Conan O'Brien 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
It's always interesting - how do you actually convey thought through song? We're used to the convention on stage. In film, we… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions… — H. L. Mencken 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
There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses. — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Yeah, it's not that I wanted to do a painting, I wanted to do writing like that. What jolted me about Jasper… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
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