A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul. — Richard Ellmann Copy Share Image
I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years. — Roland Joffe Copy Share Image
Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals,… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas. — Manuel Gonzalez Flores Copy Share Image
Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas. — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation. — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky,… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
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… — Alexi Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Everything is gestation and then bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself,… — Rainer M. Rilke Copy Share Image
In the past we could afford a long gestation period before undertaking major environmental policy initiatives. Today the time for a well-planned… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
So something I've felt I've learned with The Cosmopolitans shoot is using some agility and changing things quickly. That's something I found… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
In my case, that number is 45. And given that I was born on December 13, 1945 my conception, gestation, and birth… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
One nourishes one's created characters with one's own substance: it's rather like the process of gestation. To give the character life, or… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, he is severed from the Godhead. If anyone should… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Problems, however, are rarely solved on the spur of the moment. They must be organized and dissected, then key issues isolated and… — William Redington Hewlett Copy Share Image
Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
I think it was the perfect gestation time for this particular piece [ Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song].… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer — and non-disturbance. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot… — Kieran Bew Copy Share Image
If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period. — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
“Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion in itself, in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Everything is gestation and then bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of a feeling come to completion wholly in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Of course, such judicial misconstruction theoretically can be cured by constitutional amendment. But the period of gestation of a constitutional amendment, or… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
![“I think it was the perfect gestation time for this particular piece [ Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song]. One of the songs that I considered talking about was "Manhattan," because it was chronicling the end of a long relationship that was part of the reason why I moved from Los Angeles to…” quote by Sara Bareilles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b6f/sara-bareilles-2495_decision_i-think-it-was-the-perfect-gestation-tim_1292540.jpg)
