Conventions Quotes - Page 8

• For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.

  Wanda Koop

  Interesting, Looks, Surface

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• It's the fact that fans still care. I like all the comics conventions: The smaller ones are easier, the bigger ones are exciting.... Each one I say: Never again. But they're all great.... These things are important because they keep the fans' interest alive in comics. They keep the fans reading and their imaginations stimulated.

  Stan Lee

  Reading, Imagination, Important

  "COMIC-CON 2010: Legend STAN LEE talks 'geek power,' new movies - & why he was embarrassed to be a comic-book writer". Interview with Michael Cavna, voices.washingtonpost.com. July 23, 2010.

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• I took part in two 'Leverage' conventions. Fans fly in from as far as Russia and Australia. It's expensive to attend.

  Gina Bellman

  Russia, Two, Australia

  "Gina Bellman on Leverage: 'Fandom is a world with no prejudice'". www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2013.

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• If you look at what is happening in Republican conventions across the country, they are energized. And the message is really the same - that is, big government is a problem, spending is a problem.

  Pete Sessions

  Country, Government, Messages

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• Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society.

  Maria Montessori

  Spiritual, Lying, Men

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• I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the drab and dowdy digger in the earth. He is the uncomely but intrepid defender of family, home, and bourgeois convention, and he will fight anything of any size that intrudes upon his smug existence. ... His eyes are small and lightless and capable of but one expression - suspicion. What he does not understand, he suspects, and what he suspects, he fights.

  Beryl Markham

  Eye, Home, Fighting

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.102, Open Road Media

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• In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Social, Accepting, Process

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1904). “Human Work”, p.38, Rowman Altamira

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• Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Independence, Constitutional Convention

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• It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance.

  Virginia Woolf

  Food, Cooking, Novelists

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2616, Delphi Classics

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• I might be at a point where I don't want to go with a genre convention but I have to produce some pages. It's hard work. And it requires you learn certain skills.

  Charlie Huston

  Hard Work, Skills, Want

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• Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.

  Ada Leverson

  Fog, Hypocrisy, Romance

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• Convention is another name for the habits of society.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Names, Habit

  Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books

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• Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Sacred, Natural, Humans

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.57, Grove Press

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• Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.

  Ellen Key

  Reality, Agreement, Appearance

  Ellen Key (1911). “The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays”

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• Being satisfied, from observation and experience, as well as from medical testimony, that ardent spirit as a drink is not only needless but hurtful; and that the entire disuse of it would tend to promote the health, the virtue, and the happiness of the community, we hereby express our convention that should the citizens of the United States, and especially ALL YOUNG MEN, discontinue entirely the use of it, they would not only promote their own personal benefit, but the good of our country and the world.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Men, Community

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• To get that word, male, out of the Constitution, cost the women of this country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign; 56 state referendum campaigns; 480 legislative campaigns to get state suffrage amendments submitted; 47 state constitutional convention campaigns; 277 state party convention campaigns; 30 national party convention campaigns to get suffrage planks in the party platforms; 19 campaigns with 19 successive Congresses to get the federal amendment submitted, and the final ratification campaign.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Country, Party, Equality

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• Convention, so often a mask for injustice.

  Edith Hamilton

  Injustice, Mask

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• I would go to these 'Supernatural' conventions because, well, one, it's like going to your own version of Disneyland. You're adored for an hour or whatever, and then you walk out and you're nobody again, but, boy, when you're there, it must be what it's like to be Brad Pitt all day, you know? You're the best thing going. And it pays pretty well, too! But I was concurrently loved and hated by everybody, because the suspension of disbelief is, uh, pretty high among 'Supernatural' fans.

  Kurt Fuller

  Boys, Fans, Pay

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier.

  Will Rogers

  Government, Names, Three

  Will Rogers (1961). “The Will Rogers Book”

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• When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me to the Catholic church is that in Catholicism, prayer suffuses all of one's life by virtue of the sacraments. Prayer is not something which occurs just on Sunday, it doesn't occur only at particular moments of intensity or by particular conventions, one's whole life is given up to prayer in many, many modes. And so everything to do with the faith is trying to put you in relationship with God and trying to make that relationship grow deeper and more mature.

  Kevin Hart

  Prayer, Sunday, Thinking

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• I'm finding that everything sells. I've been toying with the fact that I have this big giant glass jar with the metal screw lid on it that's full of ribbons and memorabilia from conventions and stuff. I've got buttons and I have all of my Walt Disney Mickey Mouse credit cards. I'm wondering in my old age if anyone would pay for a credit card with Mickey Mouse on it issued to me. I wonder if anyone would pay anything for that?

  Mike Royer

  Glasses, Age, Giants

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• I like comic conventions. I genuinely like comic conventions. I like wandering around from table to table; I like wandering up and down Artist's Alley and saying "Hello" to people. I like hanging out on the DC booth. I can't do that anymore. I'd like to, but I can't. I physically can't. If I stop moving, somebody will come up to me with something to sign, and if I sign it, somehow it's like ants sensing sugar. There will be fifty or a hundred people around me and then fire marshals will come and then I'm trapped in a crowd. It's bizarre.

  Neil Gaiman

  Moving, Artist, Fire

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• It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think the convention a silly one. No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty-except, of course, books of information. The only imaginative works we ought to grow out of are those which it would have been better not to have read at all. A mature palate will probably not much care for crème de menthe: but it ought still to enjoy bread and butter and honey.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Reading, Silly

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.

  Michael Kinsley

  Lying, Complicated, Bigs

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• Successful innovations become conventions.

  Mason Cooley

  Successful, Innovation

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