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"Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception." »Alice Walker
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"I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate conception was spontaneous combustion." »Dorothy Parker
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"The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep." »Alan Patrick Herbert
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"All the fundamental concepts which make up the kind of people we are today had their modern conception in the Tudor and Stuart periods. For us, that's the milk in the coconut." »Louis Booker Wright
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"Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." »Thomas Hobbes
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"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil." »Baruch Spinoza
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"One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid." »J. D. Watson, "The Double Helix"
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"We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose." »Charles Baudelaire
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"Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own." »Robert Collier
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"The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered." »Felix Adler
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