Quotes of: Conventions Keyword

From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in conventional sci-fi.

Russell Smith

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

Arianna Huffington

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

Mayim Bialik

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

David Rockefeller

Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.

Jack Bowman

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

Northrop Frye

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

The Power of One

Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted.

Carol Bellamy

Sci-fi fans are the most loyal fans on the planet - there's no doubt about it. I've done a few of those conventions, and these people will know the lines!

Greg Evigan

I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school.

Lily Cole

In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.

Olafur Eliasson

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

Otto Hahn

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

Paul Farmer

I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.

Parminder Nagra

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Sienna Guillory

That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them.

John Yoo

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

John Yoo

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

I have failed 'Star Wars' trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms that I've never heard of.

Mark Hamill

Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.

Muhammad Yunus

I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

Natalie Dormer