The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention. — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised. — Judith Schaechter Copy Share Image
I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
“Revenge,' he said, 'is a human invention. It serves no purpose.” — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
Life is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“Most patentability requirements are concepts, they can be moulded to suit your invention” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. — Philip Shabecoff Copy Share Image
Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
I think the anti-smoking business is a yuppie invention-an extension of the concept that "we'll always be young, rich, and healthy. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
I look forward to the invention of faster-than-light travel. What I'm not looking forward to is the long wait in the dark… — Marc Beland Copy Share Image
We have a process that continually looks back to him for guidance, but it also combines that with a tremendous amount of… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Our mother was killed for something she did not do. She was taken away from us. That's as personal as it can… — Robert Meeropol Copy Share Image
The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The old idea that some genius pulls all of this stuff out of the air is ridiculous. As Ridley pointed out, the… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius… — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
I love technology. Matches, to light a fire is really high tech. The wheel is REALLY one of the great inventions of… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We often sometimes forget that- prior to the invention of removable pipe- there really were no English Bibles. We have treasures, we… — Hank Hanegraaff 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
Discovery can give no right of ownership, for whatever is discovered must have been already here to be discovered. If a man… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity. — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
