Convention Quotes
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An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.
— Ethel Mumford
Most self-employed people remain slaves to the employed's working hours.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
— Nathan Myhrvold
People in new york are authorized by convention to snoop around and mentally measure and pass comment on any real estate they're invited to step into.
— Joseph O'Neill
I've always read a lot of sci-fi. When my son was younger, I actually went to a 'Star Trek' convention.
— Blair Brown
The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention.
— Frances G. Wickes
The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.
— Fletcher Knebel
There's a kind of purity to a relationship unencumbered by convention, a sense of simplicity and freedom.
— J.P. Delaney
What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.
— Dave Mustaine
Welcome delegates to the 2012 Republican Convention! Remember to set your watches back 400 years.
— Andy Borowitz
Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.
— Marcus Buckingham
The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.
— Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.
— Dorothy Gambrell
Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.
— Learned Hand
The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.
— Benjamin Franklin
Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as 'Burning Man' in Nevada? Is there time to change this?
— Grover Norquist
Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.
— David Brooks
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
Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.
— Alan Parsons
From Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power ... — Bill Clinton
Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).
— Paulo Coelho
The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential.
— Tama J. Kieves
Had to pee like a racehorse at an Iced Tea convention.
— Stephen Colbert
As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.
— Mark Shields
Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger?
— Elizabeth Bowen
Criticism surprises the soul in the arms of convention.
— George Santayana
The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.
— Trevor Baylis
Liverpool have played with no real convention
— Ray Houghton
Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
— Walter Darby Bannard
I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.
— Michael Chertoff
Unless a convention of anarchists visited the library yesterday, most books ought to be in their rightful places.
— Evelyn Skye
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
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
— Bertrand Russell
Many ancient (and contemporary) societies considered the sexually awakened femaleas both auspicious and dangerous. — Srinivasan
Politics is quite draining. There are so many heated discussions and press conferences to cover during a convention.
— Megan Alexander
If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.
— Gloria Steinem
Always listen to yourself ... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.
— Bryce Courtenay
I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Jesus Christ, is this an NPR convention?
— Jack White
I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
— Peter Greenaway
I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.
— George Takei
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
One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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
Could be an amazing product, sell like condoms at a high school prom, donuts at a police convention, sunscreen on a Caribbean crush ship.
— Dennis Vickers
Reject labels. Reject identities. Reject conformity. Reject convention. Reject definitions. Reject names.
— Ming-Dao Deng
I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.
— Elbridge Gerry
A woman's duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes ... to speak and act in defiance of convention.
— Margaret Sanger
Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.
— Teresa Nielsen Hayden
I always thought it'd be fun to go to a sci-fi convention, watch a bunch of Klingons walking around, all of that kind of stuff.
— Michael Welch
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
— James Madison
If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?
— Chuck Schumer
People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn't. It's a convention.
— Roy Lichtenstein
New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention.
— Lawren Harris
Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on drugs was approved
— Juan Manuel Santos
To be called insane: challenge convention. To be called possessed: challenge religion.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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
A lot of senators are so worried about convention and how they look that they wouldn't let their hair down if they had any.
— Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Well, to what do we owe the honor of your presence? I asked snidely. National Slut Convention next door? Twatwaffles Anonymous?
— Karina Halle
A rigged convention is one with the other man's delegates in control. An open convention is when your delegates are in control.
— James Farley
I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.
— Libba Bray
The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
— Tom Stoppard
No convention on God's foot-stool can, or has a right to, run me and make anything but a Democrat out of me.
— Melville Fuller
Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice.
— Edith Hamilton
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
Being nearly naked around Barrons felt a lot like going to a shark convention lightly basted in blood.
— Karen Marie Moning
Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.
— A.E. Samaan
Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.
— Robert Aickman
At the Republican convention, there were lots of words used to describe Hillary Clinton, but warm, funny and caring weren't among them.
— Tamara Keith
For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.
— Virginia Woolf
Society's the mother of convention.
— Carolyn Wells
It means everything for me to serve as the CEO of a convention.
— Leah D. Daughtry
I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
— Anthony Kiedis
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.
— Kool Keith
Loopy as a crochet convention.
— Jim Butcher