Quotes About Conception

If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

From conception to delivery, it has been a great experience. I was determined to give a natural birth.

I have this belief that if you have an idea, and you have to write it down to remember it, then it can't be a great idea.

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.

The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is the Sovereign of the World; that the history of the world, therefore, presents us with a rational process.

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

There are certain animals to which tenacity of position is a law of life,–they can never flourish again, after a single wrench: and there are certain human beings to whom predominance is a law of life,–they can only sustain humiliation so long as they can refuse to believe in it, and, in their own conception, predominate still.

I won the Oscar for 'Raging Bull' for those fight sequences. If you look at those fight sequences, those were so incredibly storyboarded and shot in an incredible way - that is the conception a good director has to bring.

IVF is a wonderful thing. One has to ignore the injections as the reality is that nobody is going to invent a pill that you can take to get a baby.

You know, I was really privileged to meet Woody Allen, who is now a filmmaker, let's be honest. He's also an actor. And he's classic. And because I have no conception of what classic fashion is now, I respond to his slightly outdated sensibilities.

I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.

Every first thing is always a miracle. The first person you fall in love with. The first letter you receive. The first stone you throw. And in my conception of the novel, the letter becomes important. But what's more important is the fact that we need to continue to tell each other stories.

God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

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I spend a lot of time imagining things - in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job.

Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.

Spaces may or may not invite the image - if they do, they mostly do it with their spatial layers of time... It is then the image that takes the place of the space; the image in its own right.

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.

My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.

Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.

Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.