Conventions Quotes - Page 2

Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.

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

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

Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.

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

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.

The calendar? A mere convention.

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

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

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

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

Convention is the ruler of all.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

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

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

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

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

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