Conventioneers Quotes & Sayings

In other words, the man at the ticket office had personally had intimate social and commercial progress with more nitwits, dowagers, traveling salesmen, conventioneers, old fogies, and outright jackasses than the entire population of the City of Brotherly Love. I — Joe Queenan

I will carry you kicking and screaming like a child then spank you. We can do this my way or yours. — J.L. Sheppard

It's funny. Writing is a solitary task, but in order to succeed at it, you need other people. — Kim Wright

In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart of the business district. Schoolchildren, churchgoers, tourists, slackers, conventioneers, tech geeks - everybody, it seems - now congregate around this ponytailed shrine to outlaw country. — Douglas Brinkley

Once we were young, now we are adult. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience. — Edmund White

You know you'd rather read about me than experience me in person. Why pretend? — Jonathan Franzen

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense. — Herman Cain

Contrary to widespread belief, I do know something about science. — Nick Kroll

They left Puonvangi at the 303rd in the company of a riotous party of Binlisi conventioneers. The Birilisi were an avian species and much given to excessive narcoticism; they and Puonvangi were guaranteed to get on. There was much fluttering. — Iain M. Banks

There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group. — Edward Abbey

Both sides so blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see they were all fighting for the same thing. — Brom

Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective and enjoyable for one reader as the next. But novels and other book-length narratives are great rambling things that always contain some flaws. For works of any length, there comes a point when your continued tinkering won't improve the whole, but will just trade one set of problems for another. — Bruce Holland Rogers

Phyllis Kaberry's description of an aborigine camp in western Australia is typical: "The Aborigines continually craved for meat, and any man was apt to declare, 'me hungry alonga bingy,' though he had had a good meal of yams and damper a few minutes before. The camp on such occasions became glum, lethargic, and unenthusiastic about dancing. — Richard W. Wrangham

you're a big loser, — James Patterson

Temper in a woman is only tolerated, never celebrated. — Selina Siak Chin Yoke

Most of us are so busy trying to manage, maintain, or even just survive our life situation, that we don't make time to focus on what's most important - our LIFE. — Hal Elrod