Convention Quotes

318 Convention quotes by 269 unique authors

Still,[...] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is based upon the convention of… — Will Eisner
I have an oddball sense of humor. So when there was an episode at a comic book convention-of course they end up having Lois dress… — Erica Durance
Looking at the line-up of speakers at the (Democratic National) Convention, I have developed the 7-11 challenge: I will quit making fun of, for example,… — Ann Coulter
Walking back from the convention site I chatted with a normal Bostonian for several blocks -- who must have identified me through our covert system… — Ann Coulter
Republicans don't have to accept evolution, economics, climatology, or human sexuality, but I just watched a week of their national convention, and I need them… — Bill Maher
More people are on food stamps today because of Obamas policies than ever in history. I would like to be the best paycheck president in… — Newt Gingrich
I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps. — Newt Gingrich
I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art… — Hedy Lamarr
Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as 'Burning Man' in Nevada? Is there time to change this? — Grover Norquist
Larry is like a son to me and we enjoy a most wonderful relationship, one with meaning, dignity, pride, understanding and purpose. But more importantly,… — Don King
But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire… — Thomas Jefferson
But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate… — Thomas Jefferson
If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside might possibly endanger… — George Washington
The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other… — Patrick Henry
The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were… — James Madison
The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost as unprecedented as… — James Madison
For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him. — Virginia Woolf
The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of 'how to do'. The salvation of photography comes from the experiment. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the… — Olaf Stapledon
One does not succeed by sticking to convention. — Garry Kasparov

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