Conventions Quotes · Page 7

President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.

— John Yoo

I used to have a great fear of constitutional conventions. I have a great fear now of not having one.

— Tom Coburn

All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better.

— Jeremy Bulloch

I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing…

— Taylor Sheridan

Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.

— Plato

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

— Carla Gugino

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

— Dave Mustaine

The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.

— Barbara Bush

You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you…

— Lev Grossman

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards…

— John Yoo

I don't like to go to conventions, and I don't like to relate to people on a level of hero worship, because…

— Alan Moore

Art is about asking questions and engaging a dialog. By challenging or investigating conventions contemporary art helps promote an on-going sense of…

— Kim Anderson

“441. While she was no radical, no natural breaker of rules, no seeker of the bold statement, she was in her own…

— Tarun J. Tejpal

“And a society composed of men and women who do not bow too much to the conventions is a far more interesting…

— Bertrand Russell

I still remember vividly watching television coverage of the Democratic National Convention in the summer of 1992 (when he was 17) when…

— Josh Earnest

Well, conventions are so cool, because I just feel like I'm giving out smiles all day, it's so fun, and you get…

— Tom Payne

Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first…

— Jon Stewart

The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make…

— Gertrude Bell

With Dawn I was afraid people would just think it's a B-movie and I didn't know what I was doing. That's really…

— Zack Snyder

In 1945, peace broke out. It was the end of the Joke. Joke warfare was banned at a special session of the…

— Anonymous

It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be…

— Michael Foley

When I began making art, I just thought I liked it. As a woman who was placed in spaces with various conditions,…

— Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

Obviously, my tastes and my priorities have changed. But I'm still asking the question 'Why?' Just because I'm a mother doesn't mean…

— Madonna Ciccone

But in Afghanistan, the general rule was that since you were fighting the Taliban, which was not a lawful government force, the…

— Yaroslav Trofimov

But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

— Anonymous

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

— Anonymous

American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.

— Robert Dallek

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

— Alan Watts

The difference between a GOP convention and Comic-Con is that the people at Comic-Con have a much firmer grasp of reality.

— Bill Maher

By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.

— Carol Bellamy

“The devil take all conventions, they were made for other times.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

Reject labels. Reject identities. Reject conformity. Reject convention. Reject definitions. Reject names.

— Ming-Dao Deng

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

— Benjamin Franklin

It's a convention, but in horror movies the female characters usually tend to believe easier in a supernatural event.

— Fede Alvarez

Politics is quite draining. There are so many heated discussions and press conferences to cover during a convention.

— Megan Alexander

Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.

— Marcus Buckingham

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.

— Eleanora Duse

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

— Indira Gandhi

I'm amazed. I go to these conventions, and the fans that come, sometimes my line goes all day.

— George A. Romero

I took part in two 'Leverage' conventions. Fans fly in from as far as Russia and Australia. It's expensive to attend.

— Gina Bellman