Gestation Period Quotes

#1. Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals, in a ridiculously helpless state.

Willard Gaylin

#2. If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.

Kevin O'Leary

#3. 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

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

Amy Sedaris

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

Roland Joffe

#6. There is a necessary gestation period during which a writer should protect his work, because the minute he sends it out, or joins a writing group, or enrolls in an MFA program, he engages the part of himself that is focused on the result more than the work. For

Betsy Lerner

#7. I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.

Oprah Winfrey

#8. The longest road to finding yourself is the one that begins at home, and ends at your home.

Ian Segal

#9. There were two qualities about the mutual funds of the 1920s that made them extremely speculative. One was that they were heavily leveraged. Two, mutual funds were allowed to invest in other mutual funds.

Ron Chernow

#10. I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another.

Catherine Brady

#11. [defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.

Antonin Artaud

#12. All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.

Robert Browning

#13. Sadistic serial killers feel their victims' pain in exactly the same way that you or I might feel it. They feel it cognitively and objectively. And they feel it emotionally and subjectively, too. But the difference between them and us is that they commute that pain to their own subjective pleasure.

Kevin Dutton

#14. One did not alter lives and simply walk away from the damage.

Elizabeth George

#15. After having edited numerous shorts, earning award nominations for it, and then 4 features edits, the director inside me is now burning to share its voice. Thriller, Horror, zany Comedy.

Kyle Cassie

#16. 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 us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?

Alexi Murdoch

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

Jonas Salk

#18. Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.

Pythagoras

#19. The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Ranc

#20. I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don't function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I'm even ready to write.

Wole Soyinka