Conventions Quotes · Page 8

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

Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.

— Ellen Key

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

— Alan Parsons

Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.

— Mary Cheney

The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.

— Mason Cooley

I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of…

— Marian Engel

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no…

— Christopher Lasch

We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.

— Ilka Chase

Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny…

— John Yoo

The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest…

— Emanuel Celler

I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we…

— Russell Brand

I do sort of appreciate Nelly's [Ternan] view that it would be woman who would suffer mostly from that - who would…

— Felicity Jones

She thinks petting me is an honor. This is an unexpected position to take for a goddess of slaughter, but I applaud…

— Kevin Hearne

Bound by conventions, people tend to reach for what is easy. Here we must be unafraid of what is difficult. For all…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people…

— Aleister Crowley

Everything [Ted] Cruz was doing was legal, it was aboveboard, but it was portrayed as Cruz is the villain, and here's [Donald]…

— Rush Limbaugh

Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially…

— Albert Murray

What every prime minister struggles with and every leader struggles with is how to balance the two objectives; firstly that of ensuring…

— Malcolm Turnbull

If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow…

— Anonymous

But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is…

— Thomas Jefferson

The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. In our hands it develops and changes, through more or less arbitrary…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is…

— George Bernard Shaw

Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as 'Burning Man' in Nevada? Is there time to change this?

— Grover Norquist

“It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.

— Michael Chertoff

Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

— Mary Catherine Bateson

As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.

— Kool Keith

Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art…

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for…

— William Greider

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

London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh…

— Peter Ackroyd

When I go to a sci-fi convention, oh God, it's the closest thing to being a rock star I will ever know…

— Nathan Fillion

I like taking genres and subverting them. I did that with 'In the Valley of Elah.' I said, 'Okay, this is just…

— Paul Haggis

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any…

— Steven Pinker

Human rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to…

— John Yoo

There is a clear difference between sexist parody and parody of sexism. Sexist parody encourages the players to mock and trivialize gender…

— Anita Sarkeesian

All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure…

— Walter Wriston

I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as…

— Yaya Han