“When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
Obviously, my tastes and my priorities have changed. But I'm still asking the question 'Why?' Just because I'm a mother doesn't mean… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I took part in two 'Leverage' conventions. Fans fly in from as far as Russia and Australia. It's expensive to attend. — Gina Bellman Copy Share Image
My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
I think this was as good a Democratic Convention [ this was my 24th convention] as I have seen since the 1976… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
When Pixies broke up in 1993, I gave up the drums for the longest time. I hadn't been doing a lot, but… — David Lovering Copy Share Image
Either CS (coordinate system) could be used with equal justification. The two sentences: the sun is at rest and the earth moves,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool. — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
There's a better chance of a brokered convention than any time in our lifetime. — Renee Montagne Copy Share Image
Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art… — Alvin Langdon Coburn Copy Share Image
The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality… — Paul Signac Copy Share Image
A conventional person can be restrained by the prejudices of its tradition. Convention has too many prejudicial restraints. But unconventional is good,… — Maya Tiwari Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is... to press forward into the whole of the external world and the soul, to see and communicate… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Sorting through what social conventions we ought to adopt for the Internet is a pretty tricky and complicated topic. I think we… — Vint Cerf 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
coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around.… — Hans Blix Copy Share Image
The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost… — James Madison Copy Share Image
