#convent

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool. ↗

— Brian Molko

#cool #gigs #like #music #our

The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#computer #convenience #conventions #decisions #field

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention. ↗

— Alan Parsons

#convention #did #few #folk #gigs

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#been #blame #conventional #conventional wisdom #girl

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#beginning #came #child #conventional #cubism

As I discovered, even the governor of a major state who holds pro-life views can be denied a hearing at his party's convention without the national media protesting it. ↗

— Robert Casey

#denied #discovered #even #governor #hearing

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#assault #away #bush #civil #civil liberties

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#away #conventional #conventional wisdom #i #know

Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans. ↗

— Joan Jett

#band #being #company #conventional #create

This is nothing negative about the other candidates. It's just a recognition of the fact that Governor Romney has won more delegates. He's the only person that really has a chance to take the winning number of delegates into the convention. ↗

— Ron Johnson

#candidates #chance #convention #delegates #fact