Convention Quotes

318 Convention quotes by 269 unique authors

There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly… — Zelda Fitzgerald
People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want… — Gregory Maguire
I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense… — Jamaica Kincaid
The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power… — Bryce Courtenay
Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Then, there are the places you would rather not go-a tax collectors' convention, a sewage treatment plant, or maybe the home of someone who keeps… — Obert Skye
I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we fancy. Gravity's hard… — Russell Brand
She thinks petting me is an honor. This is an unexpected position to take for a goddess of slaughter, but I applaud her defiance of… — Kevin Hearne
I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention. — Libba Bray
I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand… — Emma Goldman
Being nearly naked around Barrons felt a lot like going to a shark convention lightly basted in blood. — Karen Marie Moning
There's no sense drawing attention to yourself, Li." "Hellooooo. I'm aHorseman of the Apocalypse, and I'm betrothed to the most infamous, most powerful demon in… — Larissa Ione
Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. — Bryce Courtenay
She was starting to feel a little like a hamburger at a dieters’ convention. Nobody was likely to snack on her, but absolutely everybody noticed… — Rachel Caine
I was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not,… — Richard P. Feynman
I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if… — David Mitchell
We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a… — Mark Twain
There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion. One, is your… — Mark McKinnon
Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male. — Margaret Wertheim
Miami Beach is a completely interesting hybrid because it is, on the one hand, a resort and, on the other hand, a real city. This… — Rem Koolhaas
Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact… — Camille Paglia
Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality. — Karen Horney
I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over. — Thom Browne
I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting… — Laraine Day
Fashion has always been in conflict with convention. Style involves some knowledge of both. But you can pretty much forget these seasonal injunctions. — Russell Smith

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