It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“There was a time when educators became famous for providing reasons for learning; now they become famous for inventing a method.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I love to make movies about young people - young scientists that are inventing things and all the writing they did was… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
“He liked to say that what makes literature is “inventing truly from honestly acquired knowledge, so that what you make up is… — Paul Hendrickson Copy Share Image
I think there's a level of ignorance, when, in the callowness of youth, you imagine that you are inventing the world for… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
When I was going into inventing, it wasn't a dream the way someone goes into nursing or dancing. Because there's a path… — Joy Mangano Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors. — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
On a more technical level, a story takes a lot of words. And to generate words and phrases and images and so… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“I realize that most inventions fail not because the R&D department can’t get them to work, but because the timing is wrong… — Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“So long as we are driven by the need to make up for our needs; by the restless sense that we are… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
You have to be closer to religious origins -- the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew… — Ann Douglas Copy Share Image
“We mustn't be afraid of inventing anything...Everething there is in us exists in nature. After all, we're part of nature. If it… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
One shouldn’t believe in all those so-called innovations. There is only one nature and only one way to see it. Nowadays, they… — William-Adolphe Bouguereau Copy Share Image
Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tub by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at… — Denis Parsons Burkitt Copy Share Image
To me, to spend all the time and energy and face all those creative challenges that you would spend for a two… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I am often thanked by people for inventing the term traditionally built. The people who give me thanks for this are often… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The future does not really lie in discovering new fragrant raw materials… In order to endure, haute perfumery is therefore condemned to… — Jean-Claude Ellena Copy Share Image
So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I don't really get a lot of clarity in my everyday life and my interactions with people. Most things that happen to… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I was watching one of those animal shows on the Discovery Channel. There was a guy inventing a shark bite suit. And… — Bill Engvall Copy Share Image
Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“To those who hadn't been around Violet long, nothing would have seemed unusual, but those who knew her well knew that when… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I've always liked the idea of inventing stuff. My father told me, because I was naïve, I would think things could work… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
All illegal narcotics are medicinal. Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it, with little or no side effects if… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
Many of us have road maps we envision for the course we think our lives should take. It's important to get headed… — Douglas Pagels Copy Share Image
Just the pleasure of moving and the pleasure of using your body is, I think, maybe the main point. And the pleasure… — Steve Paxton Copy Share Image
This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
To paraphrase president Kennedy's inaugural, the torch has been passed to a new generation of cartoonists and they are doing really interesting… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
