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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
Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.
— Alan W. Watts
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
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 powerit'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
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
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
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
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
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 thecandy store. — Randy Allen Harris
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
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
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
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
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
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