I never had children, never even thought I would have…

Of course, such judicial misconstruction theoretically can be cured by constitutional amendment. But the period of gestation of a constitutional amendment, or of any…

— Robert H. Jackson

I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait…

— Wole Soyinka

A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes…

— Rosamond Lehmann

There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.

— Jonas Salk

Problems, however, are rarely solved on the spur of the moment. They must be organized and dissected, then key issues isolated and defined. A…

— William Redington Hewlett

There are some people the gestation period is like an elephant's and it's just years and years before they're ready.

— John Amaechi

Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals, in a…

— Willard Gaylin

What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods--even extended ones--of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help…

— Alexi Murdoch

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely…

— Julia Cameron

Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

— Amy Sedaris

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

— Roland Joffe

In the past we could afford a long gestation period before undertaking major environmental policy initiatives. Today the time for a well-planned transition to…

— Kofi Annan

Ideas have a certain gestation period that can't be forced.

— Alastair Reynolds

Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem doubtful that…

— Philip Kitcher

Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different…

— Scott Simon