The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Home is the place you return to when you have finally lost your soul. Home is the place where life is born,… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively invention—these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies,… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I've been labelled many times - a criminal, an anarchist, a rebel, sometimes human garbage, but never a philosopher, which is a… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention... — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Invention requires two things: One, the ability to try a lot of experiments, and two, not having to live with the collateral… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The notion, the invention of a country, is fairly new in the history of mankind. We tend to forget that. We want… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I have a serious question." "I will give a serious answer." "Can a god be killed?" The humor drained from Roman's face.… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
A tinkerer,” snapped Pasiphaë. “Even worse. I knew Daedalus. His inventions brought me nothing but trouble.” Leo blinked. “Daedalus…like, the Daedalus? Well,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
There is first the problem of acquiring content, which is learning. There is another problem of acquiring learning skills, which is not… — Ralph W. Gerard Copy Share Image
Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker," he told her. "My own invention. Ought to be good at twenty feet, kind… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
there are all kinds of wonderful new inventions that give you nothing as owners except the opportunity to spend a lot more… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD: And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
