#convention

I mean, we are facing so many very, very important issues and those are the issues that you heard talked about last night from the Republican convention, and that you'll hear my husband talk about. And those are the really important issues facing our country right now. ↗

— Laura Bush

#convention #country #facing #hear #heard

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life? ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#course #earth #life #most #succeed

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#convention #far #fewer #geneva #geneva convention

I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#arms #battle #blood #came #coming

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#build #ceo #company #conventional #conventional wisdom

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous. ↗

— Graham Greene

#almost #conventional #good #good man #himself

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics. ↗

— William Hague

#again #cabinet #constitutional #convention #cynical

It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers. ↗

— Ian Hart

#convention #dads #desire #drama #fathers

Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#conventions #massachusetts #old-time #rule #strongly

Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#audience #available #conventional #due #electronic