Custom & Convention Quotes (2326 Quotes)

The Hall of Fame's collections are rich and diverse, given baseball's history and role in helping to shape and define American culture, ... Having the Jack Kerouac bobble-head in our collection is important, given he's an American icon who had a deep passion for the game, which he shared in his writing.

It's not just the Super Bowl itself, but the residual impact. Some of these companies who are here for the Super Bowl also are looking for different destinations for future meetings, conventions and trade shows.

People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.

In general, black hats learn their tricks the same way that everybody else does through a network of informational Web sites, magazines, conventions and advice from peers. There's even hacker radio.

I'd love to see the city market its car culture, our automotive heritage. We invented the modern industrial world. We're still Motor City.

Another virtue of my experiments is that I use the same long single strand over and over again (the natural virus sequence) and I just change the sim200 short staple strands. This means I don't have to do a custom long synthesis every time I want to make a new structure.

He's done an incredible job of instantly changing the culture of what we've been having to deal with over the last few years. He's restored confidence in the players he's returned them to being focused and more disciplined and more committed. You can see it in the way they act.

Displacement based on race is a form of genocide, as recognized under the Geneva Conventions. Destruction of a people's culture, by official action or depraved inaction, is an offense against humanity under international law.

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty, but goodness.

A trifling piece of Europe is making life unbearable for mankind. The Czechs, the vile race of dwarfs without any culture - nobody even knows where they came from - are oppressing a civilized race, and behind them, together with Moscow, there can be seen.

Continued growth in the custom sector of our business has fueled our rapid expansion, along with a high client-retention rate.

For CEOs today, it's all about achieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models, process, culture and management.

Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.

To us, there's a great opportunity to communicate our activities and issues at these conventions. That's part of the political process, and we have good reason to participate in that process, so we take advantage of these opportunities when we have them.

In every school situation (art) is the first thing that is cut back, and it is something that adds so much to the quality and character of an individual. As soon as they have the opportunity to spread their wings and fly, most young people leave Payson because there is so little here to offer them, especially in terms of the arts and culture.

We have created a culture that requires more energy than people have to give. Give life to something that can make a difference, and do it with someone you want to share it with.

The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.

Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk sometimes. I haven't hurt anybody. In Ireland we drink a lot. It's part of our culture. I like drinking. I don't think it's a bad thing.

We are sorry if Muslims have been offended in their faith. It was not the intention. What we did, we did within the constitution, the Danish penal code and international conventions.

It's tactically smart. He knows he's not going to get on the ballot through the convention and he doesn't want to give it any credibility.

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

Custom is almost second nature.

It's curious how this parallels what goes on in academia. In academic fields like cultural studies, there's a lot of emphasis placed on finding and celebrating instances of audience counter-hegemony or audience agency instances of people not acting in the way that TV or the culture industry tells them to - the idea being that people really do have free will.

Culture confers dreams, and you don't touch dreams, ... Now they've cut our dreams.

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

It has been too much the custom to regard the earliest Christian books as written in a specially Christian form of speech, standing apart and distinguishable from the common language of the eastern Roman provinces. Had that been the case, it is not too bold to say that the new religion could not have conquered the Empire. It was because Christianity appealed direct to the people, addressed them in their own language, and made itself comprehensible to them on their own plane of thought, that it met the needs and filled the heart of the Roman world.

When you're down, it's a difficult thing to change that culture. I don't think you can blame any particular person or thing.

Andrew totally gets surf and beach culture. But onto that he brings his own take, this vast knowledge, and elevates it to something I've never seen before.

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

I want people to learn something they didn't know, ... We hope people have fun and learn about our culture.

The rich Jewish culture of Spain permeates Judaism to this day, ... Their customs, language, traditions, food and art, as well as Sephardic Judaism, spread out through the Diaspora. The first American Jews were Sephardic. It is important to recover this history.

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

The question is often asked when people drop out, what does their endorsement mean And the answer is, if they had a huge following they wouldn't be dropping out. For rank-and-file voters, it probably means less than if some convention votes come with it.

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch.

I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.

I don't know that's it's maybe as well known now as it was in past years, but it really has passed into folk culture. The truth is that Rock City's advertising has overshadowed Rock City itself.

Well, the -- as the Chief of Staff of the Army can tell you, the guards are trained to guard people. They're not trained to interrogate. And their instructions are to, in the case of Iraq, to adhere to the Geneva Conventions.

Spike Jonze and his peers were contributing to the culture in as meaningful a way as any of the artists they were working for. The paradigm shifted to the director being the artist.

Events like this one warn us there is a virus loose within our culture. Too many of our young people are susceptible to it.

So-called emergency contraception is a risky drug regimen that can take the life of a newly formed human person. The decision in Massachusetts forcing pharmacies to sell this potentially lethal product is just one more example of the culture of death in our society. The additional misinformation presented in Tuesday night's episode of the 'Boston Legal' program only serves to compound the damage by misleading viewers, who are not provided with an accurate account of the drug's effects.

This is going to be outstanding. This will make the area even more of a player for conventions.

For Senator McCain, his reputation as a maverick tirelessly working to reform the culture of Washington appears to be exactly what voters want.

The local culture is another important aspect to consider when thinking about what kinds of things you want to attract. For example, the city of Ann Arbor probably would not be the best place for a automotive manufacturing plant, but in Ypsilanti, they already have facilities in place so perhaps that's the best kind of community for that kind of project.

We cannot shed tears about rising xenophobia at a time when we open opportunities for a person, who is not restrained by any moral force, to ravage sacred places, spit on his fatherland, and destroy his culture. Such a person will go and kill someone else on the basis of race or faith. There is one single and indivisible morality.

Alinsky's 1971 book, "Rules for Radicals," is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.