Conventions Quotes · Page 3

Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.

— Bryan Singer

Society's the mother of convention.

— Carolyn Wells

The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims…

— Sam Harris

It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning,…

— Josh Gad

The proportion of [Donald's Trump] own direct family members who are speaking [on the Republican National Convention] is high to an unprecedented…

— Mark Colvin

But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all…

— Alexander Hamilton

Conventions are, by nature, a party. I mean, that's why people become delegates. They come from all over the world to exercise…

— Rob Lowe

I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable -…

— Ted Nelson

As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.

— Kool Keith

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever,…

— Yann Martel

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

— Bryce Courtenay

There is a clear difference between sexist parody and parody of sexism. Sexist parody encourages the players to mock and trivialize gender…

— Anita Sarkeesian

Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of…

— Noam Chomsky

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

— Murray Kempton

We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we…

— Anonymous

I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.

— Chris Lilley

The difference between a GOP convention and Comic-Con is that the people at Comic-Con have a much firmer grasp of reality.

— Bill Maher

Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into…

— Benno C. Schmidt, Jr

There are realities about what it is to be a woman in this world that are born from social convention. No matter…

— Jonathan E. Steinberg

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

German equality of rights is the prerequisite for any participation on Germany's part in international conventions and agreements.

— Adolf Hitler

I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.

— Elbridge Gerry

Convention, so often a mask for injustice.

— Edith Hamilton

A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

— Malcolm Gladwell