#convent

When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this. ↗

— Susan Estrich

#bad #behind #convention #enthusiastic #even

It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out. ↗

— Dana Fox

#been #comedy #conventions #days #harder

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#conventional #copyright #day #disguised #distinctive

Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#aristotle #authority #bother #conventional #correct

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom. ↗

— Ed Miliband

#conventional #conventional wisdom #did #every #every time

I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#did #except #form #i #knew

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

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#centers #considered #conventional #different #different areas

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. ↗

— Florence King

#bite #conventions #etiquette #matters #merely