Conventions Quotes

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Welcome delegates to the 2012 Republican Convention! Remember to set your watches back 400 years. — Andy Borowitz
Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at. — John Wyndham
It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality… — Michael Foley
Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which… — Peter Greenaway
There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that… — Charles Guggenheim
All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better. — Jeremy Bulloch
If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get. — Clint Eastwood
A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention. — Malcolm Gladwell
Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing… — Peter Shaffer
I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War. — Elbridge Gerry
President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied. — John Yoo
Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods. — Thomas Menino
He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were less than they'd… — Major Owens
One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized. — Garry Kasparov
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
It is day two of the Democratic convention, and apparently they had a huge lighting problem in the convention hall today. They worked all day… — Jay Leno
So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until… — Michael Beschloss
Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people… — Anne Perry
Bound by conventions, people tend to reach for what is easy. Here we must be unafraid of what is difficult. For all living beings in… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Either CS (coordinate system) could be used with equal justification. The two sentences: the sun is at rest and the earth moves, or the sun… — Albert Einstein

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