Quotes of: Convent Keyword

No convention on God's foot-stool can, or has a right to, run me and make anything but a Democrat out of me.

Melville Fuller

Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.

Florence Griffith Joyner

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

Carla Gugino

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

Erich Fromm

Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.

Bryan Singer

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

Carol Bellamy

Textbooks are not so much wrong as they are conventional – and an entrepreneurial idea must be contrarian.

Jim Manzi

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Marcus Buckingham

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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

Dana Fox

The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

Emanuel Celler

American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.

Robert Dallek

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.

Timothy West

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Ambrose Bierce

I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.

Timothy White

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

Alex North

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.

Robert Aickman

I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over.

Thom Browne

Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box.

Tyler, The Creator

I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to.

Thayer David