Conventions Quotes - Page 3

A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

Successful innovations become conventions.

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.

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

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

I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.

Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.

One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as the mailbox.

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

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

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

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.

One of the conventions that I always liked was Doctor Zhivago, where everything that's written on the screen is in Russian but everyone speaks English. That seemed to me to be quite a good convention to follow.

We didn't discover our values in a poll taken a week before the convention.

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

a deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment.

Liverpool have played with no real convention.

If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of. It would defy every norm that is America.

I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.

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

[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.

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.

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

[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.