Top 100 Quotes About Convention
#1. The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
Iman
#2. Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted.
Carol Bellamy
#3. This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.
Wilhelm Keitel
#4. 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
#5. Language itself is a cultural convention, and since the Bible and other ancient documents use language to communicate, they are bound to a culture.
John H. Walton
#6. The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.
Emanuel Celler
#8. The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential.
Tama J. Kieves
#9. 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 of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#10. 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 the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week.
Michael Beschloss
#11. Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.
Will Rogers
#12. Often I didn't think I was cut out for the way the world is, being born into a common culture and system I would never choose for myself.
Jackie Haze
#13. There's a convention that one doesn't speak ill of the dead. That's stupid, I think. The truth's always the truth. On the whole it's better to keep your mouth shut about living people. You might conceivably injure them. The dead are past that. But the harm they've done lives after them sometimes.
Agatha Christie
#14. My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.
Elvis Costello
#15. I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
Anthony Kiedis
#16. The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#17. Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.
Jane Byrne
#18. Who on earth invented the silly convention that it is boring or impolite to talk shop? Nothing is more interesting to listen to, especially if the shop is not one's own.
W. H. Auden
#19. There was no law that explicitly banned women from driving in Saudi Arabia. There is none today - the Kingdom's notorious female driving ban is a matter of social convention, fortified by some ferocious religious pressures. So some Saudi women started looking thoughtfully at their Kuwaiti sisters.
Robert Lacey
#20. The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
#21. If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other words, such offers should be made whenever a dispute becomes critical and threatens to explode into war.
Charles Albert Gobat
#22. If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they get.
Clint Eastwood
#23. 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 existence. I couldn't draw more attention to myself i I wore Lady Gaga's meat dress to a PETA convention.
Larissa Ione
#24. Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal, that it would seem an ideal medium.
David Milne
#25. I think changing the Democratic Party platform [at the convention] is a great place to start. It should include expanding Social Security, a $15 minimum wage, and breaking up too-big-to-fail banks on Wall Street - among other Sanders priorities.
Ben Wikler
#26. 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. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.
Nathan Fillion
#27. I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.
Susan Estrich
#28. Only those who break the shackles of convention can ever achieve greatness.
Barry S. Brunswick
#29. Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Bertrand Russell
#30. After he returned from Washington, Johnson came into Rowe's room and said, "I agree with everything you said." Perhaps he did agree - intellectually. But he didn't take the advice. He couldn't. He was beyond listening to warnings, as was demonstrated the next day, when the convention opened.
Robert A. Caro
#31. I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
Ralph Brown
#32. All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says.
Walter Wriston
#33. 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 light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.
Peter Shaffer
#34. The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens our political welfare is, that the state governments will finally sap the foundations of the Union.
Alexander Hamilton
#35. For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.
Wanda Koop
#36. We treat the crime capital of the United States as if it was a second Disneyland, smelling like roses, a great place to take the family or hold a convention.
Ross Macdonald
#37. It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.
Steve Vai
#38. 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 on it. They still couldn't get President Obama out of Bill Clinton's shadow.
Jay Leno
#39. Convention itself, like metaphor itself, is not dead; but it is always dying.
James Wood
#40. This is a mindset that I have tried to instill in my security officials and military officers: don't just be overwhelmed by prognosis of threats, be consumed with exploring new opportunities. Don't be stuck with convention; think outside the box. Don't just look to the past; create the future.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
#41. The tastiest berries are often hidden.
Do not despair if you haven't found true love.
Look under the leaves and branches of convention.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
#42. In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation - it is a convention. The curse against God is Exercise 1 in the primer of minor poetry.
G.K. Chesterton
#43. we all know he pays hundreds of dollars for his shoes, but we are going to be paying hundreds of dollars for his flip flops~ Dem Convention 2008
Bill Richardson
#44. Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
Karen Horney
#45. Communication depends on the basic convention that participants are cooperating with one another and that, therefore, what one person says to the other is likely to be relevant.
Jonathan Culler
#46. 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 had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great.
Major Owens
#47. Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur. Doing things differently and solving problems with new, innovative and fresh approaches are the very reason many start-ups are able to compete and sometimes outpace the established market leaders.
Richard Branson
#48. 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
#49. If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention.
Larry J. Sabato
#50. We consider these settlements to be contrary to the Geneva Convention, that occupied territory should not be changed by establishment of permanent settlements by the occupying power.
Jimmy Carter
#51. We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.
Jonathan Shapiro
#52. In my later novels, I systematically used the convention, and then a moment came - when did it come? With The Book of Illusions, maybe - I thought, I don't need them anymore, I don't need them, I want to integrate the dialogue into the text.
Paul Auster
#53. Every day that goes by shortens our opportunity of booking it successfully. Whether it's members pulling their condos for personal use, whether it's a convention booking our conference center, whether it's golf packages being booked .. not hearing makes it that much harder to accommodate them.
Bill Vaughan
#54. All those before us have gone into the darkness without assurance of logic or fact or persuasive theory, with only a slender thread of hope or all too shakable convention of faith. And they have been able to sustain that slim hope in the face of darkness, then so must I.
Dan Simmons
#55. In short order, the unconventional became the established convention; the perverse was embraced as normal; the unspeakable was broadcast everywhere; the outrageous was met with enthusiastic applause.
Roger Kimball
#56. If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?
C.S. Lewis
#57. Our party is - we don't have the problems that the other party has. We're not divided. We don't have to worry about, you know, what people are saying on the side or about their affection for the president or - we don't have those problems and we don't have the reinvention convention.
David Axelrod
#58. I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.
Yaya Han
#59. I think 'Sightseers' was a bit of an epiphany, a massive learning curve, and it gave me loads of confidence to go out there, and also to create a female character which is completely unexpected and defies convention.
Alice Lowe
#60. Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians ... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both.
Chuck Close
#61. We will feel conviction about the things we create only if we keep discovering, within those creations, new reasons for wanting them to be that way.
William L. Hubbard
#62. Loving Simon isn't something one does alone or once a year at a convention - for thousands of fans of all ages, loving Simon Snow is nothing less than a lifestyle.
Rainbow Rowell
#63. Being the keynote speaker at the convention this year is an honor I don't take lightly. I know I've got some big shoes to fill. Two conventions ago, the keynote speaker was a guy named Barack Obama.
Julian Castro
#64. Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.
Dorothy Gambrell
#65. Alexander Hamilton, of New York, a signer of the Constitution, was a member of the ratifying convention in his state and did more than any other member to wring the approval of the new instrument from delegates practically instructed by their constituents to vote against it.
Charles A. Beard
#66. What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.
Dave Mustaine
#67. Tristan, dressed in all black with a long dagger in his hand, exited the den as Gabriel reached the main floor . Gabriel stopped whistling and paused. Please tell me you're going to a ninja convention.
Chelsea Fine
#68. I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.
Michael Chertoff
#69. It was a constitutional convention for the female half of the country. After all, we had been excluded from the first one.
Gloria Steinem
#70. 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 for the sake of learning and growth.
Haim Ginott
#71. A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.
Thornton Wilder
#73. for those to whom Lynne Truss is a hero, everything from spelling convention to word choice to logic is, somehow, "grammar." And
Robert Lane Greene
#74. Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby.
Barbara Kruger
#75. I was 14 years old in August of 1968 and had earned the money and had managed to get tickets as a guest of the Massachusetts delegation to the Republican convention in Miami and where I was on the floor in the Rockefeller demonstrations.
Richard Norton Smith
#77. People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings.
Max Anders
#78. Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.
Robert Aickman
#79. Sleep deprivation is an illegal torture method outlawed by the Geneva Convention and international courts, but most of us do it to ourselves.
Ryan Hurd
#80. The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.
Radclyffe Hall
#81. On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.
Hans Blix
#82. A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one.
Leon Jouhaux
#83. To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.
Alan Watts
#84. The bozo who's going to go early John Woo all over the manicured lawns and flower beds just to show he doesn't give a fuck about convention.
Don Winslow
#85. 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 to dispute, and breathing, but a lot of things we instinctively obey are a lot of old tosh.
Russell Brand
#86. 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, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.
George Santayana
#88. Welcome delegates to the 2012 Republican Convention! Remember to set your watches back 400 years.
Andy Borowitz
#89. There's a better chance of a brokered convention than any time in our lifetime.
Renee Montagne
#90. It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.
James Madison
#91. I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever 'fixed' at the Philadelphia Convention ... To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start. [Progressive]
Thurgood Marshall
#92. 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
#93. I have never done Cult TV before, the convention was good. It gives the fans a chance to meet the celebrities. Connect with the guy that used to be a bunch of coloured dots on your TV screen.
Peter Tork
#94. Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.
Barack Obama
#95. The Republican convention opens in New York to re-nominate George W. Bush and showcase the party's, quote, 'moderate side.' Will voters buy it?
Dan Rather
#96. 'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus. The universe consists only of atoms and the void; all else is opinion and illusion. If the soul exists, it also consists of atoms.
Edward Robert Harrison
#98. Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules
there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition
but it's thorough and often brutal.
Andy Grove
#99. You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.
Marianne Williamson
#100. This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
David Brinkley
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