Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Never sacrifice with your needs, cause needs are the mother of invention. — Chintan Joshi Copy Share Image
All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention. — John Marsden Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence… — Sam Hughes Copy Share Image
You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is… — Richard Blackmore Copy Share Image
I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
By 17, I had a whole band that would go in and play. It was called Spontaneous Inventions, after a Bobby McFerrin album. — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have a duty towards music; namely to invent it. ...Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it. For the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
“[ From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex' ] Beauvoir… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
We may seem the weakest and most insignificant of all the Realms, but our strength comes in other ways. We have what… — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Writing fiction lets you be a little more emotional and unguarded, a little freer. Writing fictional characters is also really different from… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that… — Elihu Thomson Copy Share Image
If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs,… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
All our stories are part invention - the way we've decided to make sense of what has happened. — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
“With the invention of the internet, any subliterate cretin can be Michiko Kakutani.” — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
Difficult economic times, often spur great periods of creativity and invention. — Carisa Bianchi Copy Share Image
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