Conventions Quotes · Page 20

I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.

— Quentin Crisp

If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.

— Nathan Myhrvold

Successful innovations become conventions.

— Mason Cooley

The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.

— Mason Cooley

I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I know sometimes when I go to a convention or a film festival occasionally people bring me really valuable and really rare…

— Robert Englund

Welcome delegates to the 2012 Republican Convention! Remember to set your watches back 400 years.

— Andy Borowitz

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

— Sri Aurobindo

For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.

— Wanda Koop

It just felt like all the excitement in the world was in the building [at the Democratic convention].

— MC Lyte

I was told that Federalist Society conventions were intellectually serious, courteous, and open to various points of view, and that has certainly…

— Sanford Levinson

I think that the person who is going to be nominated will be nominated by the convention.

— Marco Rubio

I might go visit it one day, but I couldn't do any more than just visit. I love it, don't get me…

— Lance Henriksen

“Rules, conventions, morals, reality itself: all exist so long as their existence is convenient to the preservation of power. Otherwise, they, like…

— Omar El Akkad

Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking,…

— C. S. Lewis

When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the…

— John Berger

I predict, that if the establishment can't stop Donald Trump in the primary process, they will make an effort to stop him…

— Rush Limbaugh

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions…

— Carlos Fuentes

A lot was happening, plus there were an enormous number of people in the industry that were going to conventions, so it…

— Todd McFarlane

My art gives contemporary art a juvenile-delinquent phase. Its self-made style gleefully trashes conventions of beauty and society while pick-pocketing from the…

— Steve Olson

I also remember when I watched Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer [1990] at, like, age 15. That scared the crap out…

— Christopher Bollen

I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is it permitted for Catholics to be present at, or to take part in, conventions, gatherings, meetings, or societies of non-Catholics which…

— Pope Pius X

[Donald] Trump wanted the nomination, and all these other Republicans and their supporters didn't want Trump to have the nomination. So who…

— Rush Limbaugh

The Southern Baptist Convention, as you know, decided in the year 2000 that women should not be permitted to be pastors or…

— Jimmy Carter

The US cannot be brought to the World Court for major crimes, for example the supreme international crime, invasion, or violation of…

— Noam Chomsky

Comics play a trite but lusty tune on the C natural keys of human nature. They rouse the most primitive, but also…

— William Moulton Marston

There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it…

— Maurice Blanchot

“Really," said Gregory superciliously, "the examples you choose–" "I beg your pardon," said Syme grimly, "I thought we had abolished all conventions.”

— G.K. Chesterton

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.

— Wilhelm Keitel

I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it…

— Neil Gaiman

I am interested in the conventions of picture-making, in the desire to picture the world and in our relationship, our continual love…

— Uta Barth

Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on drugs was approved

— Juan Manuel Santos

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches…

— Michel de Montaigne

There are two ways to write a werewolf novel - you can examine the genre conventions, or you can say, 'What would…

— Glen Duncan

It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.

— James Madison

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of…

— Myrtle Reed

The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of 'how to do'. The salvation of photography comes from the experiment.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but…

— Wallace Stegner

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without!.

— Anonymous