The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness. — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
We only have one future, and it will be made of our dreams, if we have the courage to challenge convention. — Soichiro Honda 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
The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential. — Tama J. Kieves Copy Share Image
My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions. — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions. — Bryan Singer Copy Share Image
Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist — Democritus Copy Share Image
I like 'Star Wars.' I mean, I don't go to the conventions and dress up like Obi-Wan Kenobi or anything, but I… — Mackenzie Rosman Copy Share Image
Prisoners, according to the law, who are non-U.S. citizens and are detained outside the U.S. - including in Guantanamo Bay - are… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people… — Ralph Brown Copy Share Image
I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine. And believe me, you are no Thomas Jefferson. (at 1992 Republican party… — Ronald Reagan 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
If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
History of America, Part I (1776-1966): Declaration of Independence, Constitutional Convention, Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, Great Depression, New… — Norman Chad Copy Share Image
Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
Still,[...] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is based upon… — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
A conventional person can be restrained by the prejudices of its tradition. Convention has too many prejudicial restraints. But unconventional is good,… — Maya Tiwari Copy Share Image
A convention on the comprehensive ban of nuclear weapons should be negotiated. Since biological and chemical weapons have been prohibited, there is… — Jiang Zemin Copy Share Image
I went to my first national convention in 1976, when my family supported [Ronald] Reagan over [Gerald] Ford, so we've always been… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I have great fun with the Togs - Terry's Old Geezers and Gals. They're a group that formed around me over the… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
My personal beliefs were shaped more by experience and by watching the news when I was young: images of angelic-looking college students… — James Vance Copy Share Image
“In no time we roll into Sedona proper and find a Cirlce K. The place is full of men with silver ponytails… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. In France you get freedom of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky with the people I've met over the years. Way back in the early '70s I went to [Phil]… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
I want you to pledge to yourselves in this convention to stand as one solid army against the foes of human labor.… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
As women are taking an active part in pressing on the consideration of Congress many narrow sectarian measures, such as more rigid… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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