I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of… — Marian Engel Copy Share Image
The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. In our hands it develops and changes, through more or less arbitrary… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
I don't like to go to conventions, and I don't like to relate to people on a level of hero worship, because… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I think they clearly do not fit within the prescriptions of the Geneva Convention. It's hard for me to see how members… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk. — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
In books and movies infidelity always looks so compelling, so right. Here are people who defy petty convention and are rewarded with… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The most that the Convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract.… — Adam Green Copy Share Image
The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“In the novels, it always seemed best to keep the suspect talking. Inevitably, help would arrive. I really held out no hope… — Ashley Weaver Copy Share Image
Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it… — Mark Twain 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
We didn't discover our values in a poll taken a week before the convention. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . . — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Over time, I discovered that learning new things doesn't always liberate you. Instead it makes you wonder if your pants are on… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
[Hillary Clinton] isinsatiably curious, she's a natural leader, she's a good organiser, and she's the best darn change maker I ever met… — William J. Clinton 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
One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image