In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
UKIP's success would never have happened without the invention of YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
The flood of photos sweeps away the dams of memory. Never before has a period known so little about itself. In the… — Siegfried Kracauer 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
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Charity is the filthiest invention of the human mind: first you steal what belongs to everyone; then you use the law and… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine. — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from… — Carl Mitcham Copy Share Image
remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened… — Rodman Philbrick Copy Share Image
"Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument, "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words; And in this change is my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If there's a new idea, a new invention, or a new gas, or a new whatever you know, It should be brought… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
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