Conventions Quotes · Page 4

[The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods.

— Thomas Jefferson

Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger?

— Elizabeth Bowen

Convention, so often a mask for injustice.

— Edith Hamilton

I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.

— Anonymous

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

I think that the person who is going to be nominated will be nominated by the convention.

— Marco Rubio

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

— M.M. Kaye

I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.

— Libba Bray

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

— Benjamin Franklin

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

— Brian Molko

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.

— Freya Stark

Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking,…

— C. S. Lewis

In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the…

— Takashi Murakami

We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take…

— Li Peng

I go to these horror conventions all the time, and these audiences get so deep into it. They've pulled apart every movie…

— George A. Romero

The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is…

— Mark Twain

I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I've never been interested in the convention of dialogue that facilitates narrative-it's always sort of bored me. I find myself zoning out…

— Rick Alverson

The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row…

— George Steiner

Unlike most readers in Antiquity who read their books aloud, we have developed the convention of reading silently. This lets us read…

— Jaroslav Pelikan

Have you noticed how the Republicans and Democrats try to copy each other at their conventions. Like at the Democratic convention John…

— Jay Leno

When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to…

— Adam Green

The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the…

— Junichiro Tanizaki

I have a theory that since everyone is always dieting, no one at a convention dinner ever eats the potatoes. Therefore, they…

— Lois Wyse

I've been to hundreds of conventions in my career. Sometimes I'm afraid I may get jaded by them. But then, I see…

— George Perez

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

The day after the Republican convention ended, there was another political bomb that was dropped on the U.S. presidential election [2016] from…

— Rachel Maddow

The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding…

— James Fallows

White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially…

— Jack Donovan

When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean…

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

I like comic conventions. I genuinely like comic conventions. I like wandering around from table to table; I like wandering up and…

— Neil Gaiman

Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Why should Canada, wild and unsettled as it is, impress us as an older country than the States, unless because her institutions…

— Henry David Thoreau

When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me…

— Kevin Hart

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

— Murray Kempton

It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

— Dana Fox

The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.

— James Madison

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

— China Mieville

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

— John Yoo