#venti

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#american troops #conventional #conventional wisdom #getting #holds

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation. ↗

— Marc Davis

#invention #really #were

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed. ↗

— John Fiske

#constructed #conventions #discursive #empirical #fidelity

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#business #con #convention #decades #fantasy

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#conventions #geneva #ghraib #happened #human

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#habits #house #indoor #inside #invention

However, lifestyle intervention requires discipline with a tangible end result that is within reach. It requires personal resolve, a lifelong commitment. ↗

— Tim Holden

#discipline #end #end result #however #intervention

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#books #comic #comic books #directed #great

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#fresh-starts #new-beginnings #reinvention #time #change

I really do the conventions now for two reasons. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

#i #now #really #reasons #two