#convent

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

Charlie's not your conventional mathematician... we sexed him up a little bit. ↗

— David Krumholtz

#charlie #conventional #him #little #little bit

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#convention #conventional #criticism #departure #fury

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention. ↗

— Franz Schubert

#convention #fool #greatest #man #misfortune

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say? ↗

— Charles Schumer

#geneva #geneva convention #obsolete #others #our

One of my movies was called "True Lies." It's what the Democrats should have called their convention. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#convention #democrats #lies #movies #should

I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay. ↗

— John Sebastian

#conventional #everybody #guitars #guys #hearing

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

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

— Mark Strand

#beautiful #concerned #conventional #i #i am