On stage you can group 200 people together and scare them or embarrass them or whatever. You can't do that on TV.… — Rik Mayall Copy Share Image
History of America, Part I (1776-1966): Declaration of Independence, Constitutional Convention, Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, Great Depression, New… — Norman Chad Copy Share Image
The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. — Florence King Copy Share Image
I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think… — Harold Ford, Jr Copy Share Image
I might be at a point where I don't want to go with a genre convention but I have to produce some… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
If you look at what is happening in Republican conventions across the country, they are energized. And the message is really the… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
Armenians, as a people that have survived the Genocide, have a moral duty towards mankind and history in the prevention of genocides.… — Serzh Sargsyan Copy Share Image
There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Conventions are convenient. It is inconvenient to say people are dead when they are alive, or alive when they have been buried,… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like 'Star Wars.' I mean, I don't go to the conventions and dress up like Obi-Wan Kenobi or anything, but I… — Mackenzie Rosman Copy Share Image
A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
