Arnold Palmer is the biggest crowd pleaser since the invention of the portable sanitary facility. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“Time was the invention of men who would confine the ocean and bottle the wind” — Kassandra Sims Copy Share Image
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The hotel industry is a very modern invention - it only really started to become branded in the 1950s. — Joe Gebbia Copy Share Image
The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers,… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
In this time of recession, it is the time for invention. Did you know both the telephone and the automobile were invented… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
“Invention: I always wanted to invent something that would move around & make funny noises & would change the world as we… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today. — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be. — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries. — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes… — Bob Blumer Copy Share Image
As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an… — Robert Jarvik Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention… — Mel Gussow Copy Share Image
I've heard some designers talk about the design process being centred on invention, starting with a blank slate. I admire that and… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real… — Rosalind Franklin Copy Share Image
Home is the place you return to when you have finally lost your soul. Home is the place where life is born,… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense… — David Hume Copy Share Image
So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The immersive stories of This Is Paradise are a lithe blend of formal invention and traditional narrative pleasures. As such they reflect… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
We shall not read it for its sociological insights, which are non-existent, nor as science fiction, because it has a general air… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Kissing is man's greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch. — Kathy Lette Copy Share Image
“Men are creatures of invention and are usually determined not to accept no for an answer.” — Mario Stinger Copy Share Image
“Though his invention worked superbly [...] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it?” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
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