If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to… — Adam Green Copy Share Image
We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
The United States of course wants to follow the highest standards of conduct with regard to enemy combatants who follow the rules… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
It's a convention, but in horror movies the female characters usually tend to believe easier in a supernatural event. — Fede Alvarez Copy Share Image
Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful. — A. Y. Jackson Copy Share Image
There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms… — John Zachary Young Copy Share Image
Republicans don't have to accept evolution, economics, climatology, or human sexuality, but I just watched a week of their national convention, and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I do sort of appreciate Nelly's [Ternan] view that it would be woman who would suffer mostly from that - who would… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
Presented memorial to [Constitutional Convention] committee on sufferage. Was very courteously treated. We all felt it a great day in the history… — Ruth May Fox Copy Share Image
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons:… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his… — Sergey Nechayev Copy Share Image
Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of… — Thomas Menino Copy Share Image
But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The immaterial told me that I was indeed an occidental, a right-thinking Christian who believes in the 'Resurrection of the flesh'. A… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
If you're 25 years old dressed up like Superman at a comic book convention, that's great. If you're 78 and you're doing… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share Image
Looking at the line-up of speakers at the (Democratic National) Convention, I have developed the 7-11 challenge: I will quit making fun… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
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