Quotes About Convention

THE MEMBERS DEBATED the executive at length three separate times during the Convention: early June, mid-July, and early September.

I get that you despise convention, but you shouldn't let it get to the point that you're incapable of saying, 'Fine, thanks,' just because it isn't an original, brilliant utterance. You can't be unconventional in every aspect of life. People will get the wrong idea.

I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.

A traditional and hence anticipated rule of interpretation, no less than a traditional and hence anticipated meaning of a word, imparts meaning.

The last-antecedent canon may be superseded by another grammatical convention: A pronoun that is the subject of a sentence and does not have an antecedent in that sentence ordinarily refers to the subject of the preceding sentence. And it almost always does so when it is the word that begins the sentence.

So great becomes the fear of losing what we have that many of us rush back to hide under the temporary shelter of convention rather than follow the path of self-discovery wherever it might lead. Given adequate time and sufficient fear, we may hide so long that we hardly notice we're slowly suffocating.

Money ... is founded merely on convention; its currency and value depending on the mutable wills of men.

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

My work has always been about not being conventional and male gaze is convention.

I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre.

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself – in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity – is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

To confirm the great principle with which civilization begins: any custom is better than no custom.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have the imposition of family to remind you of what is at stake, something else will.

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style.

One of the horribly frustrating things about writing feature films is the rules everyone applies and says, 'You have to do this by the end of the first act and by the end of the second act you must introduce this.' As if there were rules to life or telling a story or the ways things happen, which of course there aren't.

I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And it's not the only way to fill two hours, or to phrase things, or to order thoughts, or order ideas.

We treat the crime capital of the United States as if it was a second Disneyland, smelling like roses, a great place to take the family or hold a convention.

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

Bo... bo... nie wypada - No widzisz. Twoja odpowied? nic nie znaczy, nie wytrzymuje analizy intelektualnej. Jest typow? odpowiedzi? konwencjonaln?.

Ju? i inne rakiety lata? zacz??y, jeden tylko Ba?bu?a zachowa? przyzwoito?? i konwencjonalnie r?n?? no?em.