Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
What every prime minister struggles with and every leader struggles with is how to balance the two objectives; firstly that of ensuring… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
I haven't decided if he deserved to eat bread made out of sticks or live in a rancid puddle, probably because I… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond— surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves. I… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
Do one of three things. One, go and find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law. — John Yoo Copy Share Image
I have seen American determination in people like Debbi Sommers. She runs a furniture rental business for conventions in Las Vegas. When… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Flip-flopping is kind of an easy thing to identify. During a recent convention, we heard an irate Senator make an angry speech… — Frank Lautenberg Copy Share Image
Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
The system should speak the users' language, with words, phrases and concepts familiar to the user, rather than system-oriented terms. Follow real-world… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention.… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I have great fun with the Togs - Terry's Old Geezers and Gals. They're a group that formed around me over the… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
But in Afghanistan, the general rule was that since you were fighting the Taliban, which was not a lawful government force, the… — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The road to success, for me, was a long and arduous journey, strewn with obstacles and traps, pitfalls and hurdles-all created by… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate enough to travel to comic conventions in Portugal, France, Canada, and it's an honor to get to meet people… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
I think it's been time for a new party. I think it's time for two new parties. If you watch the Democratic… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
