I'm in love. And I like how that feels. And I hate how that feels. Because love is an invention of fiction… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and not a supernatural, divine revelation, how is it that it has wrought such… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I think it's really boring, from the point of view of the novelist, to write about yourself. Tedious. But that's very hard… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
To be censored is one sure way of knowing you have been taken dead seriously. It also speaks to the continuing power… — Felice Picano Copy Share Image
It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
Writer's block has probably existed since the invention of writing, but the term itself was first introduced into the academic literature in… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The cell was the first invention of the animal kingdom, and all higher animals are and must be cellular in structure. Our… — John M. Tyler Copy Share Image
I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
That's human nature - we want to completely rewrite history so it can be comfortable. Without getting too profound, I'm pretty sure… — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
“Boredom is a lack of crazy. Its a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you're bored, blame yourself.” — Katelyn S. Irons Copy Share Image
Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences… — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
An invention or new combination can be successful only if all if the elements necessary for the recombination are present in the… — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
The next big invention that will change the way we live should be things like ways of generating energy like electricity. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have… — Alanna Ubach Copy Share Image
The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process,… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences. — Gerald Vizenor Copy Share Image
Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
It is my contention that no other invention of man has brought greater chaos to humanity than the practice of religion. — Paul Winchell Copy Share Image
Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for… — Ed Askew Copy Share Image
The dishwasher is the best invention in the world, I didn't grow up with one so it's my prize possession in the… — Laura Whitmore Copy Share Image
