To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.
Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. " On one side of that sword, she said, there lies convention and tradition and order, where all is correct. But on the other side of that sword, if you're crazy enough to cross it and choose a life that does not follow convention, "all is confusion. " Nothing follows a regular course. Her argument was that the crossing of the shadow of that sword may bring a more interesting existence to a woman, but you can bet it will be more perilous.
Convention, so often a mask for injustice.
The Republican convention opens in New York to re-nominate George W. Bush and showcase the party's, quote, 'moderate side. ' Will voters buy it?
It means everything for me to serve as the CEO of a convention.
If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.
I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we seem to have forgotten this. We seem to think that property belongs to us in some essential way, that it is of us. We seem to think that our property is part of ourselves, and that by owning it we therefore make ourselves more, larger, greater.
what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
In my later novels, I systematically used the convention, and then a moment came - when did it come? With The Book of Illusions, maybe - I thought, I don't need them anymore, I don't need them, I want to integrate the dialogue into the text.
The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.
One does not succeed by sticking to convention.
We only have one future, and it will be made of our dreams, if we have the courage to challenge convention.
A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.
Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.
On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U. S. went its own way.
The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive.
[The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods.
As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.