Conceived Quotes

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(on Alan Ladd) Alan Ladd was a marvelous person in his simplicity. In so many ways we were kindred spirits. We both were professionally conceived through Hollywood`s search for box office and the types to insure the box office. And we were both little people. Alan wasn`t as short as most people believe. It was true that in certain films Alan would climb a small platform or the girl worked in a slit trench. We had no such problems together.

- Veronica Lake

People can have so many ill-conceived ideas about me based on the parts that I play. I`ve had guys, when I`ve been single, come out of the woodwork to date me and I`ve found out very quickly that they were expecting some kind of whirlwind, some dramatic crazy person - and that`s just not me.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney`s friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said `Yes.`

- Conan O'Brien

I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.

- Jacqueline Bisset

Hollywood for the most part aimed at the lowest common denominator. It`s conceived in venality, it`s motivated by pandering to the public, by making a lot of money. People like Ingmar Bergman thought about life, and they had feelings, and they wanted to dramatize them and engage one in a dialogue. I felt I couldn`t easily be engaged by the nonsense that came out of Hollywood.

- Woody Allen

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

- Boris Becker

Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe.

- Dario Fo

(on Jack Nicholson) Jack is the sort of guy who takes parts others have turned down, might turn down, and explodes them into something nobody could have conceived of. All his brilliance of character and gesture is consumed and made invisible by the expanse of his nature.

- Mike Nichols

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

- Mary McCarthy

On his films: "Bastards, most of them, conceived in contempt of life and spewn out onto screens across the world with noxious ballyhoo; saying nothing, contemptuous of the truth, sullen, and lecherous."

- Sterling Hayden

Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.

- David Wain

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.

- Ron Paul

I have always conceived of the construction of Europe as a movement which permits slowly and surely an upwards social and economic harmonisation.

- Laurent Fabius

I have to believe people in Raleigh are shaking their heads as to the amount of money spent on a totally ill-conceived concept.

- Bob Collins

You`ve got to say this was ill-conceived, poorly planned. We now have $1 million spent on a ferry that`s going nowhere.

- Bob Collins

What`s new here is not the use of umbilical cord blood in the treatment of a life-threatening disease, but it`s the way the transplant was engineered and the way the baby was conceived.

- John Wagner

The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow.

- Robert Welch

When your child is missing, you`re so aware that every minute counts. I know the issuing of the AMBER Alert played a role in our daughter`s safe return. It`s better to have (the system) conceived and in place and working for us. So many people called us during those terrifying hours and wanted to help. The AMBER Alert system enables friends and even complete strangers to do that.

- David Arnold

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

- Felix Adler

Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.

- Andrea Dworkin

Belmont Technical College was a dream conceived by those with great vision as an answer to meeting many of the needs of the resident of the Ohio Valley, ... John Shannon was chosen to lead the way in this endeavor. As the college`s first president, he represented the vision and perseverance that paved the way for the growth of the college.

- Robert Campbell

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.

- Alex Kogan

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.

- Alex Thiermann

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind`s best thoughts, and my soul`s triumph over the powers of darkness.

- Alexis Waggoner

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

- Alice Koeller

I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don`t think about it at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way.

- Alta Charo

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

- Andrew Speedy

(Said the 32-year-old Ecko about his win,) Today is further affirmation that graffiti is without question the most powerful art movement in recent history. This event was conceived as a tribute to the roots of graffiti culture, a time in New York City`s history that I chose to believe was worth fighting to preserve. ... when the City asked us to change our chosen art canvas and, as such, tried to censor my First Amendment rights and those of these great artists by attempting to dictate how we express ourselves.

- Anita Foster

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

- Asadullah Khalid

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

- Abraham Lincoln