Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Though his invention worked superbly [...] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions. — Marshall McLuhan 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
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough. — Julie Newmar Copy Share Image
The silent majority, that's actually an invention of Richard Nixon's. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth. — Vladimir Nabokov 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
We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I… — Jimmy Carl Black Copy Share Image
People from Europe and people from Africa encountered one another long before the invention of "Europe" and "Africa" and "white people" and… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through… — Varley O'Connor Copy Share Image
None of my neighbors believe in what I say. They refuse to wear the rings. They will never accept my invention until… — Alex Chiu Copy Share Image
“And the dizzying arsenal of our modern technology is a leap in innovation perhaps matched in the entire history of life only… — Peter Brannen Copy Share Image
Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter,… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
The invention of the micro-loan was a big surprise to me. Who would have guessed loans of less than $20 made to… — Joel A. Barker Copy Share Image
People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There is no religion in the world where there is a possibility of spiritual development outside of the context of that religion.… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and… — David Elkind 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
As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel. — Robert Morley Copy Share Image
Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965. — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention. — Steve Lacy 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
It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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