Conventions Quotes

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

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

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

Society's the mother of convention.

A lot of people bring it to me at conventions. At first I was going, "I can't sign that. That's not me." And now I just say, "Eh, whatever."

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

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

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

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

Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.

Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.

Convention, so often a mask for injustice.

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

Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger?

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

An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.

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

A citizen sticks to conventions, does whatever is social. Artists, of course, must reject all conventions. I see no differently in reconciling the best of both of these worlds.

I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to get the neighbors to come out, put some ketchup on them.

I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling.

A lot of the conventions aren't full of "Cheers" fans. They are more themed for fans of monsters and zombies.

I took part in two 'Leverage' conventions. Fans fly in from as far as Russia and Australia. It's expensive to attend.

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

I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.

I kind of wish I'd been to these sci-fi conventions before I was on Heroes just so I could experience it from that side.

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

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

The conventions of an almighty agency tapping you for greatness and signing you up and telling you this is going to be the next big thing; that has not been my career.

You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.

It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.

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

Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way.

The era of television in which I grew up was much simpler than now. Its conventions were quite transparent and fun to think about. Who could ever remember the plot of those shows?

[At Conventions] they give me all the photos to sign. Star Wars, Superman. And Hammy the Pig is right up there.

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

Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.

It means everything for me to serve as the CEO of a convention.

I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.

I think that the person who is going to be nominated will be nominated by the convention.

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

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

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

[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.

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

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

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.

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

Obama's latest line is that he didn't establish a "red line" but the world did through its conventions on chemical warfare.

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

If you look at what is happening in Republican conventions across the country, they are energized. And the message is really the same - that is, big government is a problem, spending is a problem.