#convent

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#badge #big #big deal #both #conventional

I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#conventional #delusional #finally #human #hypotheses

He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great. ↗

— Major Owens

#cost #costs #executives #eyes #great

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#always #conventional way #get #heartbreaking #i

It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union. ↗

— John H. Reagan

#conventions #currency #declaration #every #giving

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. ↗

— Will Rogers

#been #bless #carrying #clear #convention

Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#ballot #before #business #conventions #delegates

Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#about #affected #another #century #conventions

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#arrested #been #chance #child-like #cocoon

It's always interesting - how do you actually convey thought through song? We're used to the convention on stage. In film, we used to be used to it, and now sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. You need to be fresh and really look at the material. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#always #convention #convey #film #fresh