111 Quotes About Convention

The free spirit is a wild child, always at war with convention.

Feci presto a imparare a leggere.Tuttavia il mio pensiero si fermò a metà strada. Vedevo nell'immagine grafica l'esatto duplicato del suono che ad essa corrispondeva:emanavano insieme dalla cosa che esprimevano, e pertanto il loro rapporto non aveva nulla di arbitrario. La comprensione del segno non portò con se quella della convenzione.

We are grown stiff with the ramrod of convention down our backs.Наша спина, вечно подпираемая железным каркасом условностей, давно закостенела.(O. Henry, "The Green Door")

Because I was moved by the sorry spectacle of a conventional young man thinking that he had become radically unconventional.

I had never done anything yet that was conventional – why should the love of my life be any different?

He pulled back the sleeve of his jacket and glanced at his vintage watch tick away the seconds in a conventional way, even though he knew better than anyone that time…was anything but conventional.

There were other places we could have done it, but (the RCA Dome and Indiana Convention Center) have always given us the dates.

We need to be able to increase our efforts and the efforts of the CVB to sell the Convention Center. This is a huge investment for the state, and we need to make sure it pays off.

I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'