To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“When everything around you is crazy, it is ingenious to stay calm.” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage. — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out. — Paul Keres Copy Share Image
Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it… — Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing. — Mary-Louise Parker Copy Share Image
“The Russian technique for infecting water supplies was particularly ingenious.” Back” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
An important film that must be seen. Saving Lincoln is moving, ingenious, original and impressive. — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many… — Robert Moog Copy Share Image
Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Rather than earn money, it was Thoreau's idea to reduce his wants so that he would not need to buy anything. As… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
Being able to see and recombine existing assets and know-how in new ways allows us to take an 'ingenious approach to innovation'… — Cathy Engelbert Copy Share Image
Experience suggests that the first rule of politics is never to say never. The ingenious human capacity for maneuver and compromise may… — William V. Shannon Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
['John F. Kennedy] movie is based on a massive best-selling book, which is always helpful. And then the script was amazing and… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner;… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
When it came time to make the audiobook, Audible did an ingenious thing: they asked both Wil Wheaton and Amber Benson to… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“ John Dalton was a very singular Man: He has none of the manners or ways of the world. A tolerable mathematician… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“Some guns were fired to give notice that the departure of the balloon was near. ... Means were used, I am told,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Debt is an ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. ” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image