Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We got the first WikiLeaks publication of documents hacked and stolen by Russian government sources from the DNC, from the Democratic Party,… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
The dis-incumbenced stance is the one people should cultivate, we are told, once they recognize that there is no world beyond the… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“I hate to go mincing through life, afraid to take a single long step for fear somebody is watching. I want to… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
I don't do that many appearances at conventions. I like to keep them special for me. And for the fans, I hope. — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates… — George Washington Copy Share Image
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. — Lisette Model Copy Share Image
As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary.… — Don Hewitt Copy Share Image
Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we should just scrap 'em. Cancel… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Comic artists have always been part of my social circle. I just like hanging out with artists, and I always see them… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Because for me to go fully experimental, it would turn into an artist book actually. And I'm not opposed to that. But… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] spreading preposterous rumors that [Ted] Cruz's father had connections to Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of JFK. That put… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Every single of us is going to be saying, "Thank God, finally, an interesting convention." But you're right about all those people… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
It is day two of the Democratic convention, and apparently they had a huge lighting problem in the convention hall today. They… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
The Democratic Convention is $27 million in debt. They had to cancel the kick-off event at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. A speedway… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton should get a bounce out of her convention, I mean a bounce in the polls. I think it's probably conceded… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West,… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
A big reason I wanted to do a tour was because I'm from Michigan and not many things go to Michigan. Most… — Tyler Oakley Copy Share Image
I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which… — Harold Ford, Jr Copy Share Image
The convention of the coming-of-age story and the love story were literally abandoned - because they had to be - and a… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
The nice thing about doing a pop opera is that, because the convention is set from the beginning that this is an… — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image
It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the… — Ian Hart Copy Share Image
I rather shared Nietzsche's conception of the kind of individual that an ideal education should be cultivating. 'Authenticity' is not Nietzsche's term,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Everything has been for the [President] election for the last couple of months. Since the Democratic National Convention, it's been a dead… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
We are met today in a general conference. Sometimes, I hear, the people feel, some of them, that perhaps we are not… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
Before you judge me as some kind of 'anything goes' language heathen, let me just say that I'm not against usage standards.… — Arika Okrent Copy Share Image
Learning to say prayers in a foreign language...is not in itself the way to fulfill our highest human potential; there is nothing… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The point is that you see candidates running in these different kinds of contests. A primary shows you something that's different from… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I usually see the word "metafiction" applied to works that draw attention to their own devices, their own artificiality, in order to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection,… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
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