Bill Clinton blasted anti-immigration supporters at the National Council of La Raza convention in Los Angeles Saturday. Thousands of Hispanics poured into… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the… — Jane Haddam Copy Share Image
For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“It is not difficult to stand above the conventions when we leave no hostages among them; men can always be more unconventional… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Most people don’t really want to think independently or make decisions; they’re herd animals with herd instincts to keep to the middle… — Blanche Barton Copy Share Image
I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made… — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive. — C. G. Weeramantry Copy Share Image
It's a lonely road for those of us who choose to be remarkable, and the path of convention can sometimes be appealing.… — Chris Guillebeau Copy Share Image
Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering,… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
I really think, if anything, there is more evidence to show that the violent games reduce aggression and violence. There have actually… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
At 18, I got a publishing deal, so I was like, 'I can do this for real and not go to college.'… — Meghan Trainor Copy Share Image
The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance brokerin America who owns… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation. — Jane Byrne Copy Share Image
Ixion exists as an antidote to the rules and conventions of other places. We believe that indulging in pleasure will make better… — Marianne de Pierres Copy Share Image
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. — James Madison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The great thing about the Cthulhu shared-world setting is that no one owns the copyright, so I'm not constrained by publisher conventions,… — David Conyers Copy Share Image
When I began making art, I just thought I liked it. As a woman who was placed in spaces with various conditions,… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects. — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image