Conventions Quotes · Page 6

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

— Rachel Cohn

I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.

— Lev Grossman

“Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.”

— Dorothy Gambrell

It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive.

— C. G. Weeramantry

Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions.

— Peter Brimelow

I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.

— Bill Brandt

Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.

— David Brooks

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

With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's…

— Louis Auchincloss

If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we…

— Anonymous

[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it…

— Bertrand Russell

I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of…

— Karl Popper

At conventions, one of the standard questions I get is, 'Are you writing any new novels?' To which I used to respond,…

— Peter David

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

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

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

For me, on every project, I realize that I've boxed myself into a corner, or that the play necessitates some sort of…

— Annie Baker

In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay…

— Michael Chabon

Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen…

— Hilary Mantel

There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it…

— Maurice Blanchot

“While we've painted the guardians of the pale in a somewhat reactionary light, let's give the gatekeepers their due. What lies beyond…

— Steven Kotler

Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or…

— Rob Bell

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

— Chris Lilley

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

— Bryce Courtenay

A lot of senators are so worried about convention and how they look that they wouldn't let their hair down if they…

— Ben Nighthorse Campbell

I've done different conventions and had smaller roles in different sci-fi things.

— Brigid Brannagh

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

— Jacques Barzun

The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention.

— Frances G. Wickes

Being nearly naked around Barrons felt a lot like going to a shark convention lightly basted in blood.

— Karen Marie Moning

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .

— Alice Duer Miller

Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.

— Mason Cooley

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

— Anthony Kiedis

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

— Denis Diderot

People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings.

— Max Anders

As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.

— Annia Ciezadlo

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.

— Trevor Baylis

A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions -- being freer and more at ease as human beings.

— Ingvar Kamprad

We didn't discover our values in a poll taken a week before the convention.

— Ronald Reagan