It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the… — Ian Hart Copy Share Image
A woman’s duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes… to speak and act… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
The executions of agents, partisans, saboteurs, suspicious people, indulging in espionage and sabotage, and those who were of a detrimental effect to… — Paul Blobel Copy Share Image
The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often… — Andy Grove 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 Refugee Convention of 1951 was a major breakthrough, outlining the rights of those displaced across borders as well as the legal… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
More people are on food stamps today because of Obamas policies than ever in history. I would like to be the best… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The United States, therefore, works to ensure that any actions we take are consistent with international laws and norms - including those… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Since many people have been asking me to elaborate on why I think "Inglourious Basterds" is akin to Holocaust denial, I'll try… — Jonathan Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the… — William Hague Copy Share Image
In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally… — George Santayana 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
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
New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
As a country we have more of a political constitution than a legal one, and as such it operates via conventions and… — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of… — Jon Corzine 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
The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance brokerin America who owns… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond— surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves. I… — Louise Glück 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
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
I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
I'm creative because I did an icon navigation while everyone else on the planet sticks to words? No, it just means I… — Paul Scriven Copy Share Image
A citizen sticks to conventions, does whatever is social. Artists, of course, must reject all conventions. I see no differently in reconciling… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
New forms of media - first movies, then television, talk radio and now the Internet - tend to challenge traditional codes of… — Willow Bay Copy Share Image
A lot of people bring it to me at conventions. At first I was going, "I can't sign that. That's not me."… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
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
She was starting to feel a little like a hamburger at a dieters’ convention. Nobody was likely to snack on her, but… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
I like to play with the conventions around what we expect of paintings historically. But I also like to play with the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
