The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself. So that might be creativity, family, invention, adventure,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
[At DuPont,] I was very fortunate that I worked under men who were very much interested in making discoveries and inventions. They… — Stephanie Kwolek Copy Share Image
But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be… — Jane Haddam Copy Share Image
Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity;… — Gerald M. Loeb Copy Share Image
Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We're proud of you for having them. But it's possible that those goals are designed to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
Contrary to what many people believe, the welfare state was originally a 'rightwing' invention. It was the arch-conservative Otton von Bismarck who… — Ha-Joon Chang 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
Open marriage' is an invention of a feminist era. The idea is to have a marriage where dalliances are tolerated or even… — Amanda Marcotte 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
Now, before sliced bread was invented in the 1910s I wonder what they said? Like the greatest invention since the telegraph or… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
History repeats itself again I guess the rate of innovation is so high in our industry that if you don’t innovate at… — Thorsten Heins Copy Share Image
Well, I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to ... you start… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
“The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and aesthetic values as… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
While clothes with pictures and/or writing on them are not entirely an invention of the modern age, they are an unpleasant indication… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of numerals and the subsequent invention of… — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A journalist in America told us that we'd [with Johhny Depp] been working together for 10 decades, so we're a lot older… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it… — Fridtjof Nansen Copy Share Image
We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
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