Quotes About Conception

Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

Some guys need to see things on a grease board, ... I like when you can see it in your mind. And that's what Marvin does, too. He visualizes. He sees things in his mind so well.

The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.

Nature has got it all wrong: When you are younger, it should be harder to get pregnant, and as you get older it should be easier.

The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise.

The dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face, and the world we once believed in will shine again in grace.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there are in heaven or earth.

You have to think before you can feel. You have to conceive before you can perceive.

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

Birth is violent whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

If you have the FAITH to believe it, you have the POWER to conceive it!

Everything begins with an idea.

Whence had they come,The hand and lash that beat down frigid Rome?What sacred drama through her body heavedWhen world-transforming Charlemagne was conceived?

Thus a poetical word is a thing conceived in itself and includes all its meanings; a prosaic word is flat and useful and might have been used differently.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.