A lot of comic conventions go way beyond comic books and include other parts of pop culture, like celebrities and science fiction… — Jane Wiedlin Copy Share Image
The Constitutional Convention debated whether America should even have a standing army. ... They worried that a powerful military could rival civilian… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
A lot was happening, plus there were an enormous number of people in the industry that were going to conventions, so it… — Todd McFarlane Copy Share Image
At conventions, one of the standard questions I get is, 'Are you writing any new novels?' To which I used to respond,… — Peter David Copy Share Image
Money is only important in a society when certain resources for survival must be rationed and the people accept money as an… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
A woman’s duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes… to speak and act… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make… — Gertrude Bell Copy Share Image
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
As far as in my adult life, it kinda started (with) writing first 'cause I went to school in Nashville. I mean,… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention. — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English… — Andrew Hoberek Copy Share Image
I'm finding that everything sells. I've been toying with the fact that I have this big giant glass jar with the metal… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
Bound by conventions, people tend to reach for what is easy. Here we must be unafraid of what is difficult. For all… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If we grow old wisely, we lay aside the senseless forms and meaningless conventions of society and go back to a more… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
Larry is like a son to me and we enjoy a most wonderful relationship, one with meaning, dignity, pride, understanding and purpose.… — Don King Copy Share Image
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