Quotes About Inception

#1. I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

Jasper Fforde

#2. We can't know in advance what history is going to say, but I would be utterly amazed and surprised if American invasion to Iraq from the beginning of its inception, were not judged to be an utter failure and a terrible, terrible thing for the world.

Robert Reich

#3. The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred which has followed the inception of consciousness into the human species.

Julian Jaynes

#4. I do listen to music. Movie scores, exclusively, because it's all about mood and nonspecificity. I love the way modern movie scoring is all about nonspecificity. You know, if I shuffled the tracks from 'Inception,' I challenge you to tell me which is which.

Joss Whedon

#5. Caroline's lips thinned, her face flushed. "My husband, sir, has more secrets in his tiny, insignificant mind than the entire British War Department has had on file since its inception." She huffed with pure, disgusted outrage, lowering her gaze to the floor to murmur, "I'll kill him.

Adele Ashworth

#6. From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.

Bill Condon

#7. As a producer, you're there from the inception of the concept to the delivery of it. It just takes so much energy.

Susan Downey

#8. The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

Douglas Haig

#9. More is spent in a single month [in the U.S.] fighting the war on drugs than all monies ever expended domestically or internationally fighting slavery from its inception. Per month, we spend more on the drug war than we ever have trying to free slaves.

Mira Sorvino

#10. fundamental to the Java platform from its inception and predates the emergence of Web-based services standards.

Thomas Erl

#11. There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left, which had been morally confused about Communism since its inception and had become essentially pacifist following the carnage of World War I.

Dennis Prager

#12. Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries
slave of prejudice ... slave of religious fanaticism ... slave of barbarity and inhumanity.

Saadat Hasan Manto

#13. If you're going to perform inception, you need imagination. You need the simplest version of the idea-the one that will grow naturally in the subject's mind. Subtle art.

Christopher Nolan

#14. From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.

Marilyn Manson

#15. After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood's inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide of a totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine they call shariah.

Frank Gaffney

#16. The problem is that this round from its inception has had agriculture at its centerpiece. The EU and the U. S. and other WTO members cannot wish that away, that is a reality.

Rob Portman

#17. Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.

Liam Neeson

#18. When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff and writing songs as The Shins and all of that. So the beginning inception of the whole thing was some sort of a lie, I guess.

James Mercer

#19. As there has been given, dreams are of different natures, and have their inception from influences either in the body, in the mind, or from the realm of activity without the body through the desires and purposes of the soul itself.

Edgar Cayce

#20. Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

Ryan Phillippe

#21. 'Interstellar' is a thematic sequel to Christopher Nolan's last original film, 'Inception'. It drops us into a dark future full of otherworldly landscapes and time distortions.

Annalee Newitz

#22. The most vexing problem Israel faces is its relations with its neighbors. From the inception of the state until today, Israelis have felt besieged, surrounded by enemies who want to make them disappear.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#23. Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

Bennett Miller

#24. Since our inception, Youku Tudou as the leader in the multi-screen video space has helped transform how video and entertainment-related content is distributed and marketed.

Victor Koo

#25. 'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it.

Jill Scott

#26. Twitter wasn't a big thing even on 'Inception;' it certainly wasn't on 'The Dark Knight.'

Emma Thomas

#27. Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.

Adam Ostrow

#28. I see the country going fascist. We have been going that route a long, long time. A lot of things the country has done from its inception were fascist. But now, now I think we are in the face of a terrible fascist dictatorship.

Margaret Walker

#29. Good ideas rarely seem like good ideas at their inception, that's what stops the majority of people from having them

Drew Gummerson

#30. Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.

Jasper Fforde

#31. Since the inception of Gym Class in 1997, every member has had another musical outlet, if not three or four.

Travie McCoy

#32. The Civil Rights Commission should never have been brought into existence. It has been most prejudiced in its viewpoint, and has fomented trouble and racial disturbance since its inception. It should be abolished, not extended.

John Sparkman

#33. The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.

Anthony Foxx

#34. Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

Felix Adler

#35. Great things often start out small, and only open minds can perceive their inception.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#36. ASAP has helped IBM take more than $150 million worth of Unix business from Sun since its inception.

James Larkin

#37. The inception of human consciousness, the genesis of awareness, must have entailed prolonged 'condensations' around intractable nodes of wonder and terror, at the discriminations to be made between the self and the other, between being and non-being (the discovery of the scandal of death).

George Steiner

#38. Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby.

Barbara Kruger

#39. Sachin has been an integral part of Mumbai Indians and a source of inspiration for the team ever since the inception.

Nita Ambani

#40. The gaming industry has been male-dominated ever since its inception.

Anita Sarkeesian

#41. I want to try it to see what it's like and see what my stuff looks like when I take it from inception to completion.

Charlie Kaufman

#42. The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?

Paul Celan

#43. The promise of energy savings, reduced carbon emissions and affordable lighting was there from the inception. The proliferation of the technology into areas such as displays, automotive, medicine and horticulture was unexpected.

Shuji Nakamura

#44. Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.

Mike DeWine

#45. This is my inception, I'm writing my dreams.

Common

#46. In order to witness clearly the march of humanity from its inception to the present moment, an understanding of how humankind has held encounter with the divine as central is crucial. Ancient humanity provides us with an excellent laboratory for gaining such an understanding.

Roger D. Woodard

#47. I've traveled with Jack Murtha to Iraq three times to learn more about the region, talk with our diplomats and military leaders, and meet with our troops. Those visits are the main reason that I opposed the War in Iraq since its inception.

John B. Larson

#48. From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#49. From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as "something NEW" and "like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected - by hip people who listen." But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.

Allen Ginsberg

#50. The world is one Matrix, you don't realise it but it's the truth. It's well shown in the films like Matrix 1,2,3 and Inception!

Deyth Banger

#51. So much for the right books; the right use of them is another matter. The children must enjoy the book. The ideas it holds must each make that sudden, delightful impact upon their minds, must cause that intellectual stir, which mark the inception of an idea.

Charlotte Mason

#52. We learned at an early age that it was men's interpretation of our religion that restricted women's opportunities, not our religion itself. Islam in fact had been quite progressive toward women from its inception ...

Benazir Bhutto

#53. In Nine Inch Nails, I've been the guy calling the shots since inception. I'd gotten used to that.

Trent Reznor

#54. That TV show, 'After Thought,' is really exciting. It's a cross between 'Inception' and 'CSI' that I'm working on with Melissa Rosenberg from the 'Twilight' movies.

Evan Daugherty

#55. Our country since its inception has been at war, every 15 or 20 years. But the war that we are fighting against radical Islamist jihadists is one that we must win. Our very existence is dependent upon that.

Benjamin Carson

#56. Why humans kill each other is beyond my comprehension, but I can testify that you have been doing it since your inception. Only the weapons change.

Mitch Albom

#57. I am one of your biggest fans (Barack Obama), if not the biggest, and have been since the inception of your campaign ... It would be wonderful if we were able to give this man all of the power that he needs to pass the things that he needs to pass ... You're so handsome that I can't speak properly.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#58. Youku Tudou has helped transform how media and entertainment-related content is distributed and marketed since our inception.

Victor Koo

#59. [W]hat seems like madness at its inception will become the way things have always been if you give it enough time.

Mira Grant

#60. Lutheran Reformation, from its inception in 1517 down to the Peasants' War of 1525, at once absorbed, and was absorbed by, all the revolutionary elements of the time.

Ernest Belfort Bax

#61. So Oxford, at its inception a huddle of theologicians and divines, grew into a city of dreams, and much good may come of that. Little surprise that Middle-earth and Narnia were both discovered here.

Gregory Maguire

#62. We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

Lane Kirkland

#63. Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.

Mitt Romney

#64. With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.

Dexter Fletcher

#65. There is as well and Inception!

Deyth Banger

#66. From the inception of our nation our American ancestors intended for the United States to operate under a precious-metals monetary system or, more specifically, under a monetary system in which people used gold and silver coins rather than paper money as the media of exchange.

Jacob G. Hornberger

#67. Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

Frank Serpico

#68. In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception of the atomic age into the most mythologized event in American history.

Stewart Udall

#69. There was never any more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.

Walt Whitman

#70. It's awesome to see something like 'Inception', which is just mind-blowing and amazing, and it actually resonates with the audiences. I feel like that's rare.

Danny McBride

#71. I think the inception of my interest in arts was when I was around 9 or 10 and I started dancing. I was really convinced that I was going to go to New York and be onstage in 'A Chorus Line.'

Robin Wright

#72. Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.

Bashar Al-Assad

#73. If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and Avatar on every level.

Armond White

#74. Not that it mattered though. The truth seldom ever did in the face of a juicy lie.

Bianca Scardoni

#75. In order to create an idea ... to become an idea, it is a necessity for you to believe that it is your own idea. The idea will grow to define your entire life. And when you die ... you don't.

Lionel Suggs

#76. I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you try to think about what that means it makes your mind silly, but that silliness is good.

Natalie Goldberg

#77. How could you understand? Do you know what it is to be a lover? To be half of a whole?

Christopher Nolan

#78. I hadn't even left my room and already my day had taken a U-turn straight to hell.

Bianca Scardoni

#79. The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you as a friend.

Bianca Scardoni

#80. One misstep was all it took, and it all came crashing down. And they were right there waiting for it - eager and ready to bury me in the wreckage.

Bianca Scardoni

#81. Everything about the house was rich, and dense, and rooted. It was everything I wasn't. Even the air, with its distinct smell of oak wood and sage, spoke to its identify and its history. I couldn't help but feel small here. Overwhelmed. Incompatible.

Bianca Scardoni