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The most elementary communication is not possible without some degree of conformity to the "conventions" of the symbolic system. — Talcott Parsons

An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation. — Ethel Mumford

Nature seems to welcome defiance of conventions, and to say, with a smile, 'So, the truant has come back again!' ("Absolute Evil") — Julian Hawthorne

Do not take the world too seriously, nor let too many social conventions oppress you. — Randolph Bourne

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 with, though. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others. — Carla Gugino

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

I love sex ... It should be animalistic, it should be sadistic, it should at times be masochistic ... There are few rules and moral conventions. — Jayne Mansfield

One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past. — Sol LeWitt

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything. — Alan W. Watts

But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-'
'Are all very well for common people. — H.G.Wells

The ridiculous way we thought male, female, as pants or skirt. Suddenly, the whole sexual universe and its conventions seemed fantastic, contrived. — Janet Fitch

As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work. — Steve Krug

And if torture were uniformly ineffective, there would be no need for a treaty banning it - which the Geneva Conventions do. — Anonymous

You've got to be kidding me." I lean back to search his face. "You're going to worry about conventions when we're past the end of the world? — Stephenie Meyer

All boundaries are conventions. — David Mitchell

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool. — Brian Molko

People no longer live by sun and moon, by wind and stars, but by some slyly contrived conventions known as clocks and calendars. — Matthew Goldman

Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions. — Martin Amis

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair. — Dave Mustaine

Don't be surprised that I value prejudice, observe certain conventions, seek power
it's because I know I live in an empty society. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society ... — Maria Montessori

I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness. — Anton Szandor LaVey

The conventions of language reveal the ways we see the world. — Dan Millman

When I was a teenager, I loved political conventions. — Robert Krulwich

Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are. — George Santayana

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. — George Santayana

What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions. — Eugene Delacroix

Technically you would only need one time traveler convention. — Dorothy Gambrell

I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport. — Bill Brandt

Politics is quite draining. There are so many heated discussions and press conferences to cover during a convention. — Megan Alexander

President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied. — John Yoo

Liverpool have played with no real convention — Ray Houghton

I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Successful innovations become conventions. — Mason Cooley

My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions. — Ernest Cline

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention. — W. Somerset Maugham

Hannibal Lecter stole Leatherface's mask and ported the slasher conventions into the thriller for the early '90s. — Stephen Graham Jones

I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary. — Hunter S. Thompson

Conventions are often more cruel than the law. — Honore De Balzac

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions. — M.M. Kaye

I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions. — Rachel Cohn

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river. — Indira Gandhi

I used to have a great fear of constitutional conventions. I have a great fear now of not having one. — Tom Coburn

Of all the conventions of mystery stories, the one that's impossible to break is the solution at the end. — Graham Moore

I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water. — Michael Chertoff

A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie. — Thornton Wilder

There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses. — Jonas Mekas

University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden. — Allan Bloom

Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination. — Walter Darby Bannard

There are two ways to write a werewolf novel - you can examine the genre conventions, or you can say, 'What would it be like if I were a werewolf?' — Glen Duncan

As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects. — Annia Ciezadlo

I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that. — Chris Lilley

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art. — Eleanora Duse

It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out. — Dana Fox

Particular reinscription in the cinema of a discourse of the image and the look in indigenous conventions. — Anonymous

I have failed 'Star Wars' trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms that I've never heard of. — Mark Hamill

He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments. It — G.K. Chesterton

Social conventions were avenues as much as barriers. — John Shirley

Sound is the hard currency; meaning is the network of cultural and formal conventions that turns it into a stick of gum at the
candy store. — Randy Allen Harris

Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you. — Mason Cooley

Some of the most amazing human beings on the face of the planet go to sci-fi conventions, although I'm sure a few of them wouldn't admit it. — Richard Hatch

A good part of what appears to us - prima facie - as objective reality is, instead, just a consequence of our conventions to discover it. — Felix Alba-Juez

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden

For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself. — Wanda Koop

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

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 be alive. — Alvin Langdon Coburn

Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions. — Julia Ward Howe

There's a better chance of a brokered convention than any time in our lifetime. — Renee Montagne

I don't do that many appearances at conventions. I like to keep them special for me. And for the fans, I hope. — Anthony Daniels

As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records. — Kool Keith

Indeed, it may be suggested that 'traditions' and pragmatic conventions or routines are inversely related. — Eric Hobsbawm

New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention. — Lawren Harris

Conventions are often surrounded with the solemn language of morality, but in fact they have little to do with it. — Frans De Waal

I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling. — Adam Green

The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave. — Bill Murray

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away. — Sri Aurobindo

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've agreed to do several Star Trek conventions this coming year. — Nichelle Nichols

American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions. — Robert Dallek

We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap. — Ilka Chase

I've done different conventions and had smaller roles in different sci-fi things. — Brigid Brannagh

All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better. — Jeremy Bulloch

The subsistence level is only a conventional idea, and conventions change. — Arthur Lewis

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them. — Michel De Montaigne

A deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment. — Regina Maria Roche

Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention). — Paulo Coelho

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us. — Gustave Flaubert

The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential. — Tama J. Kieves

People forced to live by conventions are always the first to enforce them. — George Hodgman

I love doing the conventions and being an ambassador for 'Star Wars.' — Daniel Logan

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations. — Freya Stark

If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier. — Will Rogers

Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger? — Elizabeth Bowen

For hard resets, conventions and conferences can be inspiring. — Kelly Sue DeConnick

Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred. — Mary Catherine Bateson

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately. — Robert Aickman

I like 'Star Wars.' I mean, I don't go to the conventions and dress up like Obi-Wan Kenobi or anything, but I like watching the movies. — Mackenzie Rosman

Society's the mother of convention. — Carolyn Wells

Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force. — Thorstein Veblen