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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #convention




In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.


John Sladek


#conventional #god #most #nor #novels

Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.


Bryan Singer


#challenge #cinema #conventions #direct #every

The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.


Peter Singer


#accordance #clearer #convention #course #geneva

I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.


Mark Strand


#beautiful #concerned #conventional #i #i am

You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.


Marianne Williamson


#love #love

Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.


Robert Henri


#conventions #did #established #fall #help

Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods.


Thomas Menino


#announce #boston #committee #convention #fund

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






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