Conventions Quotes

458 Conventions quotes by 377 unique authors

The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions. — Walter Darby Bannard
Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract convention. — Robert Genn
New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention. — Lawren Harris
Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing. — Will Rogers
There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a… — Aldo Leopold
The era of television in which I grew up was much simpler than now. Its conventions were quite transparent and fun to think about. Who… — Joe Bradley
What every prime minister struggles with and every leader struggles with is how to balance the two objectives; firstly that of ensuring that all asylum… — Malcolm Turnbull
Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have a… — J C Watts
Look, this CPAC convention is increasingly the Star Wars bar scene of the conservative movement. All that’s missing from that convention is a couple of… — Steve Schmidt
Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to… — Alvin Langdon Coburn
Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts to whole……. …skew… — Charles Jencks
Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from… — C.S. Lewis
Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is… — Karl Marx
If you're 25 years old dressed up like Superman at a comic book convention, that's great. If you're 78 and you're doing it, something's wrong. — Billy Bob Thornton
I have a fun time, doing the meet and greets, the pictures and the autographs. Every show I've ever done, lends itself to that kind… — David Anders
What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have… — Carlos Fuentes
I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up these press releases… — Wavy Gravy
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did. — Bette Davis
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. — Denis Diderot
'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem… — James Fenton
My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that.… — Nathan Fillion
When I go to a sci-fi convention, oh God, it's the closest thing to being a rock star I will ever know in this life.… — Nathan Fillion
I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of… — Harold Ford, Jr.
When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to… — William Hague
I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do… — Laurell K. Hamilton

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