Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.
William Bligh

As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
Ambrose Bierce

But with carefully chosen keyboard macros to activate it, Mass Copy is quick, convenient, and powerful. Most users who have mastered it depend heavily on it. That certainly includes me.
Robert Patterson

Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much more convenient and you're getting instant results, but to me it just lacks the finesse of a roll of film and it has a slightly superimposed feel.
Graeme Le Saux

E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.
Tom Hanks

Everything is so convenient in New York.
Matthew Modine

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
Ninon de Lenclos

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.
Thom Yorke

I just prefer wood. I like the smell. To me, it's a lot cheaper than electric or gas, and it's more convenient. It's just a better heat to me.
Junior Johnson

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.
Catherine Deneuve

I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.
Kevin Costner

I've been watching so many movies and they all have to do with the DVDs. It's just so much more convenient.
Shiri Appleby

It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.
Henri Poincare

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
Ovid

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
Samuel Alexander

It is imperative for the health and safety of millions of workers that we ensure that breathing systems needed for protection are widely available, convenient and economical.
Bill Shuster

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
M. Russell Ballard

It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
Yasser Arafat

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.
Mary Todd Lincoln