Convention Quotes

You have to be invited to perform at the convention usually by a taped audition. Many schools submit tapes to be considered, but very few schools are accepted or invited to perform. - Randy Talley

You have the most unified Republican Party since Ronald Reagan's reelection in 1984; the Christian right is completely subdued... You don't have any task [at the convention] but to appeal to that prototypical woman voter who lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia. - Marshall Wittmann

You get to a point where you identify everybody you can by conventional means, and we've really pretty much gotten to the end of the road on that. The fact that we have been able to identify close to 90 percent of these people working under these conditions is nothing short of remarkable. - Chuck Smith

You don't have to be a huge convention to meet there. - Mary Hendron

You could argue that putting it near the convention center and the two major hotels down there, and the environment of the Strip, would make sense. I don't think that's an idle thought. - Mark Schneider

You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way. - Terry Southern

You can't conform in business... If you adhere to conventional wisdom, if you do everything everyone else does, you're going to lose, The only way to get ahead, to really get ahead. is to be different. - Larry Ellison

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for the reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally. - John Maynard Keynes