Quotes of: Convent Keyword

Ramesh Ponnuru and others say Obama is a conventional liberal. But conventional liberals don't come out for the release of the Lockerbie bomber. Conventional liberals don't return the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office. Conventional liber...

Dinesh D'Souza

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

Christopher Reeve

Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent schools are breeding grounds for great broads and occasionally one-of-the-boys. Convent schools teach you to play against every...

Elaine Stritch

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I'm not a conventional guy. I've never been a conventional guy.

Dontrelle Willis

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

Sam Walton

I reject most conventional wisdom.

Rush Limbaugh

The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

Ian Mckellen

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

Wilhelm Keitel

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

Steve Albini

When people say the word "convention," they are usually referring to large gatherings of the employees of companies and corporations who attend a mass assembly, usually in a big hotel somewhere, for the purpose of pretending to learn stuff when they ...

Proven Guilty

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

Hedy Lamarr

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

Yoweri Museveni

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it wi...

The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

Andrew Vachss

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

Peter Jennings

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

Joseph Stiglitz

I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.

Otto Hahn

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

Nick Clooney

I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so. In moments like this, I can feel your hea...

David Mitchell