Conventions Quotes · Page 18

In fact the Hillary [Clinton] convention which did very well but not nearly as well as mine, in all fairness, would've gotten…

— Donald Trump

In my later novels, I systematically used the convention, and then a moment came - when did it come? With The Book…

— Paul Auster

We must institute a coup d'etat, a third revolution, which must beat down anarchy. Dissolve the Paris Commune and destroy its sections!…

— Jacques Pierre Brissot

Actually since the Convention I have gotten so many letters that I have tried to answer but every letter said they thought…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable…

— Anton Chekhov

One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all…

— George Santayana

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A…

— Anonymous

Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts…

— Charles Jencks

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

— George Santayana

If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier.

— Will Rogers

I like comic conventions. I genuinely like comic conventions. I like wandering around from table to table; I like wandering up and…

— Neil Gaiman

Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).

— Paulo Coelho

I have failed 'Star Wars' trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms that I've never heard of.

— Mark Hamill

But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either…

— Thomas Jefferson

Now, national conventions are largely an excuse for companies and party leaders to throw parties for delegates to attend, to network and…

— Bob Barr

My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant,…

— Alfred Nobel

Still,[...] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is based upon…

— Will Eisner

I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the…

— Beryl Markham

With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come…

— Anonymous

One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable…

— Marlo Thomas

Sci-fi conventions are probably the most fun, the most out-of-the-box, entertaining week or weekend you've ever had in your life.

— Richard Hatch

[John] Calvin is revered as a thinker of immense importance in Reformed thought, Jonathan Edwards could say in his preface to his…

— Oliver D. Crisp

I think a lot of kids get scared by 'E.T.' Sometimes when I do the science-fiction conventions, I'll have a 35-year-old guy…

— Dee Wallace

For me, on every project, I realize that I've boxed myself into a corner, or that the play necessitates some sort of…

— Annie Baker