Conventions Quotes

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

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

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

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them.

I've been fortunate enough to travel to comic conventions in Portugal, France, Canada, and it's an honor to get to meet people from all over the world.

You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.

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

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

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.

Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.

I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I've done conventions and trade shows. A lot of different little hats.

What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.

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

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

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

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

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

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.

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

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

First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.

Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.

I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it out to each other.

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

Convention is the ruler of all.

If you're kept off the debates, you can't reach more two percent of people even if you campaign every state and fill the big conventions like Madison Square Garden.

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

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.

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

A big reason I wanted to do a tour was because I'm from Michigan and not many things go to Michigan. Most conventions are in like London or Florida or California, and that's about it.

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

The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.

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

Conventions are, by nature, a party. I mean, that's why people become delegates. They come from all over the world to exercise their democratic rights and to party.

I don't like to go to conventions, and I don't like to relate to people on a level of hero worship, because there's no real communication going on there.

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.

Sci-fi fans are the most loyal fans on the planet - there's no doubt about it. I've done a few of those conventions, and these people will know the lines!

A rigged convention is one with the other man's delegates in control. An open convention is when your delegates are in control.

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.

Successful innovations become conventions.

On stage you can group 200 people together and scare them or embarrass them or whatever. You can't do that on TV. You have to use the conventions, that's why Kevin (Turvey) works so well.

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

German equality of rights is the prerequisite for any participation on Germany's part in international conventions and agreements.

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

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.

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

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