#venti

I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work. ↗

— Chris Cornell

#did #ever #expect #go #guitar

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#frame #only #reference #sanity #thought

I've been offered proof of God's existence at regular intervals in my life through experiences so profound they've given goose bumps to atheists. ↗

— Jennifer Skiff

#divine #divine-intervention #god #profound-realizations #proof-of-god

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

I've just got into the convention circuit in the last couple of years and it's great to see all these people who are still interested in the show. It's so gratifying to hear that so many people enjoyed the work that Erin and I have done. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#convention #couple #done #enjoyed #erin

I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#conventions #edge #getting #greeting #i

This program has been successful in detecting and preventing attacks inside the United States. ↗

— Michael Hayden

#been #detecting #inside #preventing #program

The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#biggest #boomers #career #eliminating #impact

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#away #come #convention #faith #human

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again. ↗

— Pauline Kael

#conventionality #quality #repetitiveness #standards #art