#convention

Sci-fi fans are the most loyal fans on the planet - there's no doubt about it. I've done a few of those conventions, and these people will know the lines! ↗

— Greg Evigan

#conventions #done #doubt #fans #few

I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would. ↗

— Edie Falco

#any #anything #i #life #like

Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention. ↗

— Mary Cheney

#decided #going #heather #i #low-key

I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice. ↗

— Harold Ford

#choice #convention #enjoy #expect #flag

When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for all, the result must be just this terror of individualistic impulses setting us apart, either above or below our neighbours; just this determination to obey without questioning and to subscribe with passion to the conventions and traditions. The dilemma becomes a very real one: How can this sense of democratic equality be made compatible with respect for exceptional personalities or great minds? How can democracy, as we understand it today, with its iron repression of the free spirit, its monotonous standardisation of everything, learn to cherish an intellectual aristocracy without which any nation runs the risk of becoming a civilisation of the commonplace and the second-rate? ↗

— Harold Edmund Stearns

#civilization #conventions #distinction #equality #individualism

Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#bin #compare #conventional #fight #function

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field. ↗

— Jane Haddam

#audience #conferences #conventions #field #fights

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did. ↗

— Otto Hahn

#did #disregarding #english #first #hague

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#conventional wisdom #everything #filter #just #left

I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late '80s. I hadn't gone to a convention before that. It was quite amusing, with the people dressed up and all of that. ↗

— Persis Khambatta

#before #convention #dressed #gone #hadn