Conventions famous quotes

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

#Inspiring #Conventions

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

#Hunting #Issues #Conventions

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Ideas #Defying #Conventions

I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.
-- Anton Chekhov

#Theatre #Conventions #Stage

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

#Break #Conventions

The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
-- Barbara Bush

#Opinion #Should #Conventions

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

#Sports #Photography #Conventions

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.
-- Bryce Courtenay

#Conventions #Self Determination #Listen To Yourself

By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.
-- Carol Bellamy

#Rights #Government #Conventions

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.
-- Carolyn Heilbrun

#Today #Tomorrow #Conventions

Society's the mother of convention.
-- Carolyn Wells

#Mother #Society #Conventions

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?
-- Charles Schumer

#Soldier #Obsolete #Conventions

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
-- China Mieville

#Fiction #Science Fiction #Conventions

New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
-- Daniel Gillies

#Behavior #Conventions #Aggression

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

#Hair #Politics #Conventions

Convention, so often a mask for injustice ...
-- Edith Hamilton

#Injustice #Mask #Conventions

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

#Art #Tradition #Conventions

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

#Pounds #Conventions #Explanation

What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.
-- Eugene Delacroix

#Beauty #Sovereign #Conventions

One does not succeed by sticking to convention.
-- Garry Kasparov

#Succeed #Doe #Conventions

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.
-- George Washington

#Together #Paper #Conventions

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
-- Gustav Mahler

#Vanity #Renounce #Conventions

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

#Cold #Revolutionary #Conventions

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

#Sex #Hypocrisy #Conventions

The calendar? A mere convention ...
-- Irina Ratushinskaya

#Time #Calendars #Conventions

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
-- Irving Babbitt

#Romantic Love #Leader #Conventions

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.
-- Jacques Barzun

#Equality #Sublime #Conventions

What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions ... and yet which still remains a context.
-- Jacques Derrida

#Believe #Objectivity #Conventions

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.
-- Jane Byrne

#Chicago #Conventions #Transportation

Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.
-- Jane Rule

#Way #Conventions #Surviving

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

#Conventions #Enjoyable #Variety

Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks.
-- John Yoo

#Use #Permit #Conventions

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.
-- John Yoo

#Law #Criminals #Conventions

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

#President #Conflict #Conventions

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

#Massachusetts #Conventions #Old Time

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear.
-- Lisette Model

#Routine #Invisible #Conventions

A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.
-- Malcolm Gladwell

#Challenges #Conventions #Radical

Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.
-- Marcus Buckingham

#Country #Together #Conventions

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

#Sacred #Natural #Conventions

Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.
-- Mary Cheney

#Keys #Heathers #Conventions

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

#Water #People #Conventions

Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.
-- Michael Kinsley

#Lying #Complicated #Conventions

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

#Stars #Years #Conventions

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
-- Otto Hahn

#Firsts #Poison #Conventions

The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.
-- Peter Singer

#Conventions #Pentagon #Said

Convention is the ruler of all.
-- Pindar

#Authority #Conventions #Rulers

Liverpool have played with no real convention
-- Ray Houghton

#Real #Conventions

a deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment.
-- Regina Maria Roche

#Punishment #Deviation #Conventions

Bruce Reid is not the worst batsman there is at international level but those who are worse would not need to hire the Myer Music Bowl to hold a convention.
-- Richie Benaud

#Needs #Levels #Conventions

We only have one future, and it will be made of our dreams, if we have the courage to challenge convention.
-- Soichiro Honda

#Dream #Challenges #Conventions

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

#Art #Past #Conventions

It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.
-- Steve Vai

#Unconventional #Musician #Conventions

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.
-- Stewart Brand

#Art #Conventions

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

#Astonishment #Worship #Conventions

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

#Stories #Plot #Conventions

The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.
-- Ugo Betti

#Sincerity #Spontaneity #Conventions

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

#Imagination #Conventions #Release

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

#Interesting #Looks #Conventions

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.
-- Wilhelm Keitel

#War #Agreement #Conventions

What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.
-- Yoweri Museveni

#War #Conventions #Geneva Convention

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

#People #Study #Conventions

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

#Needs #Time Travel #Conventions

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

#Men #Conventions #Rigged

I like to play with the conventions around what we expect of paintings historically. But I also like to play with the conventions that you expect from a Kehinde Wiley painting, too.
-- Kehinde Wiley

#Play #Painting #Conventions

It means everything for me to serve as the CEO of a convention.
-- Leah D. Daughtry

#Mean #Conventions #Ceo

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

#Conventions #Conferences #Discussion

[John] Calvin is revered as a thinker of immense importance in Reformed thought, Jonathan Edwards could say in his preface to his treatise on Freedom of the Will that he had derived none of his views from the work of Calvin, though he was willing to be called a "Calvinist" for the sake of convention.
-- Oliver D. Crisp

#Views #Sake #Conventions

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

#Chance #Lifetime #Conventions

I have more folds than an origami convention.
-- Roscoe Arbuckle

#Origami #Conventions #Folds

[Democratic National Convention] was high, it was exciting. The hotel that I stayed at, they had music in the lobby and [Hillary] Clinton life size cutouts.
-- MC Lyte

#Size #Clinton #Conventions

Convention is another name for the habits of society.
-- Rosamond Lehmann

#Names #Habit #Conventions

I was told that Federalist Society conventions were intellectually serious, courteous, and open to various points of view, and that has certainly been my experience.
-- Sanford Levinson

#Views #Serious #Conventions

The attributes of liminality are necessarily ambiguous... Liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention and ceremonial.
-- Victor Turner

#Law #Conventions #Entity