Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
A brilliant idea doesn't guarantee a successful invention. Real magic comes from a brilliant idea combined with willpower, tenacity, and a willingness… — Lori Greiner Copy Share Image
Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Do not be tempted to invest in a sample of each golfing invention as soon as it makes its appearance. If you… — Harry Vardon Copy Share Image
It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It… — Joan Wickersham Copy Share Image
“The girls put their wits to work, and - necessity being the mother of invention - made whatever they needed.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The world isn't getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more... The… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
Without question the AK-47 was a remarkable invention, and not just because it works so well, or because it changed how wars… — C. J. Chivers Copy Share Image
Logic leaves us no choice. In that sense, math always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers.… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
That's why I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians...… — Scott Joplin Copy Share Image
To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
“The discovery of the telephone has made us acquainted with many strange phenomena. It has enabled us, amongst other things, to establish… — William Henry Preece Copy Share Image
Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
