I dont like doing whats expected. Ive always done best when Ive listened to my instincts rather than following convention or doing… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were… — Major Owens Copy Share Image
The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out. — Dana Fox Copy Share Image
No one can doubt, that the convention for the distinction of property, and for the stability of possession, is of all circumstances… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions -- being freer and more at ease as human beings. — Ingvar Kamprad Copy Share Image
When I go to a sci-fi convention, oh God, it's the closest thing to being a rock star I will ever know… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Walking back from the convention site I chatted with a normal Bostonian for several blocks -- who must have identified me through… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
There were very strict social conventions, and you adhered to it, and I think it gave you a lot of character. When… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention. — Alan Parsons Copy Share Image
The greatest thing about form and convention is that it saves you from having to reinvent the wheel. Now, whether you mount… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
ADMIRABLY BOLD. There's something grand about the film's sincerity and the intensity of its emotions and something fresh and bold about the… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
Being nearly naked around Barrons felt a lot like going to a shark convention lightly basted in blood. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The attributes of liminality are necessarily ambiguous... Liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned… — Victor Turner Copy Share Image
If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which… — John Fiske Copy Share Image
I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water. — Michael Chertoff Copy Share Image
To put it another way, every love relationship is based upon unwritten conventions rashly agreed upon by the lovers during the first… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
