Conventions Quotes · Page 20

There's no point in making films unless you intend to show us something special, otherwise just go out and watch a play.…

— Bryan Singer

I really do the conventions now for two reasons.

— Rene Auberjonois

one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom,…

— Allen Ginsberg

I think changing the Democratic Party platform [at the convention] is a great place to start. It should include expanding Social Security,…

— Ben Wikler

For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

— Virginia Woolf

If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in…

— Aleister Crowley

I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you…

— Gary Bauer

I thought it was remarkable in July [2016] when he pointedly declined to endorse Ted Cruz at the Republican convention, because I…

— Josh Barro

I love sex... It should be animalistic, it should be sadistic, it should at times be masochistic. There are few rules and…

— Jayne Mansfield

THE Constitution proposed by the convention may be considered under two general points of view. The FIRST relates to the sum or…

— James Madison

“Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash…

— L.M. Montgomery

I was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something…

— Anonymous

The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to…

— Bryce Courtenay

Perhaps the only thing that saves science from invalid conventional wisdom that becomes effectively permanent is the presence of mavericks in every…

— David M. Raup

My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention.…

— Elvis Costello

“It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions.

— Martin Amis

You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you…

— Lev Grossman

I've agreed to do several Star Trek conventions this coming year.

— Nichelle Nichols

If there was a big gardening convention, and you got up and gave a speech in favor of fast-motion gardening, I bet…

— Jack Handey

For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older,…

— Will Self

[Political] conventions lend themselves to pandering, as few politicians can resist the temptation to tell a national television audience how well they…

— Ron Paul

There is a convention that the principal heir should be kept away from real danger. As the 'spare' rather than the heir,…

— Robert Lacey

Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

— Julia Ward Howe

Whenever we have seen a crevice in the crust of convention, we have called attention to it, because we have hoped for…

— Franz Marc