Quotes of: Conventional Keyword

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

Chris Lilley

Whatever the story means in the story which I told you, the fact of thinking in terms of stories does not isolate human beings as something separate from the starfish and the sea anemones, the coconut palms and the primroses. Rather, if the world be ...

Breaking Convention: Essays on Psychedelic Consciousness

One of the most irrational of all the conventions of modern society is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. …[This] convention protects them, and so they proceed with their blather unwhipped and almost unmolested, to t...

H.L. Mencken on Religion

The Libertarian Party convention wasn’t much better. You will never find a more stammering, awkward, inarticulate group of people than libertarians. I still remember the convention the previous year, entitled 'Women of Liberty.' All of the speakers...

Indecision Now! A Libertarian Rage

I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only bad actors lie ...

Stories I Only Tell My Friends

Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice.

The Greek Way

Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions.

Peter Brimelow

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Jane Byrne

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

Brian Molko

I'm not very good with conventional, prim-and-proper people who are well-behaved, grown-up.

Lesley Nicol

In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

John Sladek

There isn't much about my life that's been particularly conventional.

Ken Livingstone

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

Carroll O'Connor

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

Gustav Mahler

I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.

George Takei

Sykes: What is this - a trench coat convention?

The Fugitive

People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.

Bill Laswell

One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

Anthony Kiedis

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

Nichelle Nichols