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This collection holds 217 convention quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Nathan Myhrvold, Dean O'gorman and Tom Stoppard.

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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.

I never did a convention before I did 'The Hobbit.'

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

I've had the basic courage and confidence to never follow convention.

In 1980, I watched my first Republican convention with my grandfather.

Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.

I always rate a convention by the lack of blisters from twiddling my thumbs.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.

By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.

I played a funeral convention once. York Casket Company pays well, in case anyone's wondering!

I once went to a 'Star Trek' convention by mistake - I thought I was going to a 'Doctor Who' one.

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

If you back out of a convention... you can't dodge your obligation. Torture is still not acceptable.

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

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

I've always read a lot of sci-fi. When my son was younger, I actually went to a 'Star Trek' convention.

I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to.

I think there's something funny about people who laugh in the face of convention or surprise us morally.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

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

As a Democratic member of Congress, I have a vote at the Democratic National Convention as a superdelegate.

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.

No convention on God's foot-stool can, or has a right to, run me and make anything but a Democrat out of me.

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

I was 14 when the Democratic convention in my hometown of Chicago erupted into violence. It was a tough year.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

In his tub-thumping speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Romney sounded like the hedge-fund tycoon he is.

I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.

I'll never forget my first moment of looking out on a convention audience with my mouth open like they were kidding me.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences.

In fiction, we are not bound by social convention, so the things that mystify and unsettle are allowed to rise to the surface.

I always thought it'd be fun to go to a sci-fi convention, watch a bunch of Klingons walking around, all of that kind of stuff.

The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

It's difficult to see how the U.K. can be a member of the E.U. if it's not adherent to the principles set out in the convention.

As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.

Barack Obama's convention speech in 2004 had made him a political star, and he arrived in Iowa to crowds unseen in caucus history.

If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they get.

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