Conventions Quotes

458 Conventions quotes by 377 unique authors

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set. — W. Somerset Maugham
All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were… — Havelock Ellis
Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated… — Haim Ginott
All young people want to kick up their heels and defy convention; most of them would prefer to do it at a not too heavy… — Elmer Davis
Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley,… — George Santayana
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words. — George Steiner
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the… — George Steiner
Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention. — Jacques Barzun
Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of… — Wallace Stegner
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks… — Ezra Pound
In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation… — Barbara Ehrenreich
The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention. — Ugo Betti
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 conventions of the… — Jane Haddam
If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or… — Aleister Crowley
Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are… — Patricia Briggs
For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he… — Northrop Frye
I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple… — Malcolm McDowell
I've agreed to do several Star Trek conventions this coming year. — Nichelle Nichols
The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry… — Ted Nelson
People come up to me at conventions and say, 'I was such an outcast, I felt like such a geek, and when I saw you,… — Cassandra Peterson

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