There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“In the end, everyone looses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Sleep was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. When I was sleeping, I wasn’t feeling guilty, or miserable, or sad. — Jenna Black Copy Share Image
I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Our most valuable resources - creativity, communication, invention, and reinvention - are, in fact, unlimited. — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Somehow I felt that if Fox Talbot had had more time and more drawing talent, he would have filled in the interval… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
Money is a wonderful invention. It lets us save, it lets us specialize, right? I couldn't be a professor if there wasn't… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The discovery I announce to the public is one of the small number which, by their principles, their results, and the beneficial… — Louis Daguerre Copy Share Image
To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what… — James Salter Copy Share Image
One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things--combinations that may yield new formsof… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. — Robert M Hutchins Copy Share Image
Why would you go anyplace without your iPad? This is the greatest invention. When it gets a little more power, my God.… — Scott Raab Copy Share Image
To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
It was amazing feeling to be able to be involved in invention, but not just invention - the creating of a marketplace… — Blythe Masters Copy Share Image
remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened… — Rodman Philbrick Copy Share Image
Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Of course smartphones are brilliant inventions, but the nefarious thing about Twitter and other social media is that it starts to fill… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before. — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead.… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They… — Don Tapscott Copy Share Image
Inspiration leads to invention. Tenacity is the breeding ground for inspiration. There can be no invention in the absence of tenacity. — Momofuku Ando Copy Share Image
“People who achieve big things are those who decide to try ideas that were previously rated and graded as impossibilities. “Impossibility” never… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
My current computer, in addition to 'DOS,' has 'Windows,' which is another invention of Bill Gates, designed as a security measure to… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I look forward to the invention of faster-than-light travel. What I'm not looking forward to is the long wait in the dark… — Marc Beland Copy Share Image
Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We had a rule in Tibet that anyone proposing a new invention had to guarentee that it was beneficial, or at least… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
