Conventions Quotes · Page 5

For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

— Virginia Woolf

I kind of wish I'd been to these sci-fi conventions before I was on Heroes just so I could experience it from…

— Hayden Panettiere

A lot of the conventions aren't full of "Cheers" fans. They are more themed for fans of monsters and zombies.

— George Wendt

I've agreed to do several Star Trek conventions this coming year.

— Nichelle Nichols

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

— Stewart Brand

University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

— Allan Bloom

“As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.”

— Steve Krug

Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.

— A. Y. Jackson

Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.

— David Mermin

Then, there are the places you would rather not go-a tax collectors' convention, a sewage treatment plant, or maybe the home of…

— Obert Skye

I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late '80s. I hadn't gone to a convention before…

— Persis Khambatta

One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of…

— Wendell Berry

He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were…

— Major Owens

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as…

— Peter Greenaway

We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.

— Romano Prodi

A lot of comic conventions go way beyond comic books and include other parts of pop culture, like celebrities and science fiction…

— Jane Wiedlin

Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture…

— John French Sloan

The impulses of my heart are the voice of Nature, which is never mistaken. The institutions that stand in my way are…

— Frederic Bastiat

Sundry manifestations of nature in men and women, are greatly perverted by existing social conventions upheld by both. There are feelings which,…

— Herbert Spencer

The Philippines made a lawful and peaceful effort to resolve their maritime claims with China using the tribunal established under the Law…

— Barack Obama

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

No officer should be required or permitted to take part in the management of political organizations, caucuses, conventions, or election campaigns. Their…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

The U.S. is telling the Northern Alliance to kill Taliban prisoners. It's totally a breach of all the known conventions of war.…

— Tariq Ali

A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a…

— Norman Mailer

If we were left to ourselves with the task of taking the gospel to the world, we would immediately begin planning innovative…

— David Platt

Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its…

— Anonymous

To put it another way, every love relationship is based upon unwritten conventions rashly agreed upon by the lovers during the first…

— Milan Kundera

“If women patronize the wheel the number of buyers will be twice as large. If women ride they must, when riding, dress…

— Frances E. Willard

Being satisfied, from observation and experience, as well as from medical testimony, that ardent spirit as a drink is not only needless…

— Andrew Jackson

“When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for…

— Harold Edmund Stearns

I know Teddy Kennedy had fun at the Democratic convention when he said that I said that trees and vegetation caused 80…

— Ronald Reagan

Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.

— Adam Gopnik

I love doing the conventions and being an ambassador for 'Star Wars.

— Daniel Logan

[At Conventions] they give me all the photos to sign. Star Wars, Superman. And Hammy the Pig is right up there.

— John Ratzenberger

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

— Jane Byrne

There's a better chance of a brokered convention than any time in our lifetime.

— Renee Montagne

It means everything for me to serve as the CEO of a convention.

— Leah D. Daughtry

Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.

— Richard Branson

Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.

— Michael Kinsley

I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.

— Rachel Cohn