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Conventional Quotes (page 2)

Hedy Lamarr quote: "I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in..."
I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts. Hedy Lamarr
I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late '80s. I hadn't gone to a convention before that. It was quite amusing, with the people dressed up and all of that. Persis Khambatta
So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week. Michael Beschloss
From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business. Michael Beschloss
Who knows what true happiness is, not the conventional word.. but the naked terror. To the lonely themselves, that wears a mask, the most miserable outcast hugs some memory.. or some illusion. Joseph Conrad
Radclyffe Hall quote: "The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by..."
The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth. Radclyffe Hall
As to the roaming of sages, They move in utter emptiness, Let their minds meander in the great nothingness; They run beyond convention. And go through where there is no gateway. They listen to the soundless. And look at the formless, They are not constrained by society. And not bound to its customs.- Lao-tzu Lao Tzu
Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting the delaration of independence and only realized on July 3rd the Articles were also due. Jon Stewart
All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man of her choice. This is the age-long convention of the romantic novel, but with Jane Austen, what we have is Mills & Boon written by a genius. P. D. James
She was about twenty-four, Rosemary guessed - her face could have been described in terms of conventional prettiness, but the effect was that it had been made first on the heroic scale with strong structure and marking, as if the features and vividness of brow and coloring, everything we associate with temperament and character had been molded with a Rodinesque intention, and then chiseled away in the direction of prettiness to a point where a single slip would have irreparably diminished its... F. Scott Fitzgerald
The startling thing about her simplifying instinct was that the more she did away with fashion in search for comfort and the more she passed over conventions as she obeyed spontaneity, the more disturbing her incredible beauty became and the more provocative she become to men. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
forward-thinking teachers and school administrators across the country are creating a whole range of alternatives to cookie-cutter teaching and evaluation methods, such as the use of student portfolios and exhibitions in addition to conventional exams to assess students' progress. Hillary Clinton
Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose of the demarcation of political frontiers of any state has been discounted for international conventions. For example the Arabs cannot ask Spain just because they were there some time in the past nor can they ask for any other area outside the frontiers of the Arab homeland Saddam Hussein
Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do this work, for women alone understand the height, the depth, the breadth of her degradation. - Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Really," said Gregory superciliously, "the examples you choos?"I beg your pardon," said Syme grimly, "I thought we had abolished all conventions. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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