A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
No one can see ahead three years, let alone five or ten. Competition, new inventions - all kinds of things - can… — Thomas Rowe Price, Jr Copy Share Image
“We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
Anyone who wants to pretend that your Huntington's disease is an invention is someone who does not have your best interests at… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I think the inner person is the most important… I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Oh my God, Zumba is the greatest invention ever for women. I like to exercise, though I do nothing consistently because I… — Robin Wright Copy Share Image
You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Bear in mind that the children of life are the children of joy; that the lower animals are only unhappy when made… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Postcolonialism is the invention of some rich guys from India who saw that they could make a good career in top Western… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
“If the successor does better than the ancestor world remembers the successor, like the maker of a car, is still remembered but… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition. — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I discovered that bone china was a British invention, which had been developed by a pottery sited next to a slaughterhouse -… — Christien Meindertsma Copy Share Image
Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Every new discovery in science brings with it a host of new problems, just as the invention of the automobile brought with… — Banesh Hoffmann Copy Share Image
It's only a slight exaggeration to say we haven't progressed much beyond the invention of agriculture when it comes to our view… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a… — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
I think that Napster is the greatest invention since sliced bread. Napster, to me, is liberation and freedom for artists. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“From this era on, I think invention will be the parent of necessity – and not the other way around.’ That was… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made… — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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