Famous Quotes & Sayings

We need to be able to increase our efforts and the efforts of the CVB to sell the Convention Center. This is a huge investment for the state, and we need to make sure it pays off.

Joan Didion

I lead a very conventional life.

He was somewhat surprised to learn that most of the convention space was also destroyed,

Murray Kempton

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

John Jay Hooker

A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.

Margaret Wertheim

Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.

Chris Carter

Scientific whaling is only legal because the provisions in the international convention on the regulation of whaling are out of step with modern conservation approaches. New Zealand is working to remedy this.

Right now, they're going to stop $50 meals, but they are still able to throw these elaborate convention parties that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in honor of a congressman.

Robert Casey

As I discovered, even the governor of a major state who holds pro-life views can be denied a hearing at his party's convention without the national media protesting it.

Could it be that my indictment -- curiously issued two weeks before the Democratic National Convention -- is largely political?

This fits into the ICVA's strategy of going after the size of events that would fit into a single hotel with convention space. We would welcome the opportunity to work with the IMS on sales and marketing.

This is going to be another significant area. It's probably a continuation of the convention center.

There were other places we could have done it, but (the RCA Dome and Indiana Convention Center) have always given us the dates.

Jeremy Bulloch

All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better.

James Frey

You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.

Rich Lowry

So that was a mistake? ...So Eleanor, you tonight are holding Governor Blanco accountable for trying to starve out evacuees last week from the Super Dome and the convention center? For the record, you're holding her accountable?

Casey Stengel

I stayed up last night and watched the Republican Convention all night long. I watched all of them talk, and listened to them and seen them and I'm not interested in politics. If you watch them and listen to them you can find out why.

Ralph Brown

I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'

We moved in first to secure the Superdome. Now our mission is to secure the convention center.

We had such a successful convention in 2000, we knew Philadelphia could handle it.

I'm not planning on going back. I was renting. I spent time in the (New Orleans) Convention Center. With all the lies we've had to deal with from that point until now, I'm not going back.

It's something I heard at a convention in Chicago. David Warble has championed this piece. When we heard we could get him as a conductor, I thought that would be great. I didn't know George Takei would be part of the deal.

There may be a brawl on the convention floor. It's a real possibility. That's what happens when you let the 'brown shirts' into your party.

Justin Trudeau

In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice party. It means that we are a party that defends women's rights, and therefore, it would be inconsistent for any Liberal MP to be able to vote to take away women's rights.

I felt there was a very strong need to put more emphasis on group and convention sales.

I don't see a demand for more luxury rooms near the convention center. Three, four or five years from now that might change.

If our party's convention was held next week, I think Spencer would be the choice.

The Venezuelan government is required to provide diplomatic protection under the Vienna Convention of 1961.

Peter Singer

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.

Peter Jennings

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

The first national convention of any political party was the anti-Masonic party.

Thomas Carlyle

The great law of culture - and surely this convention before us now is a great law of culture - is: let each person become all that he was created equal of being. That is what this convention will help to achieve.

Corin Tucker

The first show I ever played was the International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia, Washington. It was girl night, and I was in Heavens To Betsy. I had just turned 18.