While the Tamils were inventing cabs and leather jackets, we Greeks were busy inventing philosophy. But I guess everybody needs cabs and… — Romain Gavras Copy Share Image
I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man.… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
“But you can't invent things like time,' Violet said. 'You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I don't have any simple things. I only have things like a gold-studded leather jacket. Then I'm going to Hawaii and I'm… — Shaun White Copy Share Image
Just the other day someone threw a bra duct-taped to a tennis ball. I just stood there, playing guitar, thinking how this… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
You have to deal with the fashion egos. You know, there is a lot. It shouldn't be treated that seriously because fashion… — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
Most change in America doesn't come from, politicians. It comes from people inventing things and creating. The telephone, the telegraph, the computer,… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred… the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Marketers keep inventing desires, necessities for you and for me. I need this. I need that. I need. I need. It's the… — Giannina Braschi Copy Share Image
Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
Some say Christianity is just a crutch. But let's turn the question on its edge for a moment. Is atheism an emotional… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Try as I might, Agatha Christie is unique. The actual writing style can't be exactly the same, so instead of trying to… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
“We're all innately creative; I'm not bringing anything magical to it. Ninety percent of inventing is putting in the hours and just… — James Jorash Copy Share Image
I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it. — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. You… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I love to make movies about young people - young scientists that are inventing things and all the writing they did was… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
“He liked to say that what makes literature is “inventing truly from honestly acquired knowledge, so that what you make up is… — Paul Hendrickson Copy Share Image
When I was going into inventing, it wasn't a dream the way someone goes into nursing or dancing. Because there's a path… — Joy Mangano Copy Share Image
I think there's a level of ignorance, when, in the callowness of youth, you imagine that you are inventing the world for… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
“There was a time when educators became famous for providing reasons for learning; now they become famous for inventing a method.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors. — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
I am often thanked by people for inventing the term traditionally built. The people who give me thanks for this are often… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The future does not really lie in discovering new fragrant raw materials… In order to endure, haute perfumery is therefore condemned to… — Jean-Claude Ellena Copy Share Image
Loewe inspires me. The way Jonathan Anderson's brain works... He's inventing, not just for the sake of new, new, new. It comes… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Two individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing… — Warren Bennis Copy Share Image
Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal… — Malaika Arora Khan Copy Share Image