Quotes About Conventions

Conventions need have no rationale apart from the rationale of having a convention.

A film released in a theatre needs to provide entertainment to more people. It is different with an OTT platform, not just in terms of audience size - it gives space to break more conventions.

For a healthy society, those laws and conventions should always support marriage as an institution characterised by an openness to children and the responsibility of fathers and mothers remaining together to care for children born into their family.

I love when I go to conventions, and often it'll be the younger kids who will refer to us by our character names - how can you not find that absolutely charming? I remember when I used to go to conventions when I was a kid when I would stand in long lines to get people's autograph.

You look at women at the Republican convention and women at the Democratic convention. Republicans have a certain aesthetic beauty that involves more makeup, bigger hair, more lurid outfits.

I'll always be grateful for what 'Doctor Who' has given me. I go to quite a few fan conventions. It's lovely to hang out with people you worked with so long ago. And, more than that, it's made me aware of the impact that television can have.

Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

I often run into wrestlers at comic conventions or wrestling events, and it could be Tito Santana or Demolition, and I'm just flooded with memories. It's always nice to see one of your old mates, especially the ones who I knew from further back.

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

A funny thing about film is that it's the only medium where people say there are really rules that you have to stick to. Nobody says to the writer - in a film you've got to have three acts - there's a character arc you have to do - there's no reason that's true.

Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.

one's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us

Ah, ancora disse Rodolphe. Sempre i doveri; sono stufo di quelle parole. Eccoli lì: un mucchio di vecchi buoni a nulla, rinvoltati nella flanella, e di bigotte con lo scaldino e il rosario, che ci cantano eternamente nelle orecchie: Il dovere! Il dovere!. Eh, perbacco! Il dovere significa sentire ciò che è grande, amare ciò che è bello, e non accettare tutte le convenzioni della società con le ignominie che c'impone.

Il dovere! Il dovere, perbacco! Il dovere è di sentire ciò che è grande, di coltivare ciò che è bello, e non d'accettare tutte le convenzioni della società con gli obbrobri ch'essa c'impone. Perchè infierire contro le passioni? Non sono, forse, l'unica cosa bella al mondo, la sorgente dell'eroismo, della poesia, della musica, dell'arte, di ogni cosa, insomma?

Party machinery is not a fortuitous development, but is the direct result of the requirements of practical politics. The necessity of nominating candidates for offices leads inevitably to the development of caucuses and conventions.

Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way.

When you are bringing a love story to screen, how do you embody desire and love? How do you get away from the conventions of romantic comedy where it's love at first sight?

Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own time is ridden with empty insincere formalities, you plump for spontaneity, for indecorous behavior even...Much of morality is the task of compensating for one's age. One assumes unfashionable virtues, in an indecorous time. In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.

Principles are conventions and definitions in disguise.

For hard resets, conventions and conferences can be inspiring.

He wouldn't write a letter because he couldn't without beginning it 'Dear Sylvia' and ending it 'Yours sincerely' or 'truly' or 'affectionately.' He's that sort of precise imbecile. I tell you he's so formal he can't do without all the conventions there are and so truthful he can't use half of them.

Trust your instincts, know what you want, and believe in your ability to achieve it. Rules and conventions are important for schools, businesses, and society in general, but you should never follow them blindly.

It is always painful to set one's self against tradition, especially against the conventions & prejudices that hedge about womanhood.