Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.

While I'm not a celebrity it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up for instance and you can't hear them boo you right away.

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry ' or 'Movies ' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now though there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes lots more high-concept categories and questions.

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

It may however be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.

Belief is nothing but a more vivid lively forcible firm steady conception of an object than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.

Our Age of Anxiety is in great part the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.