You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention. — Bernard Malamud 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
The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
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
Writer's block has probably existed since the invention of writing, but the term itself was first introduced into the academic literature in… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Postcolonialism is the invention of some rich guys from India who saw that they could make a good career in top Western… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
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
I think the inner person is the most important… I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change… — Dean Kamen 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
Shareholder value theory - the destructive idea that companies should be run solely for the benefit of shareholders - has led to… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
“Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question… — Dava Sobel Copy Share Image
When scandal has new-minted an old lie, Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply, 'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appears… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Old companies that had nothing to do with software in the past all have software development activities to unlock the invention that's… — Peter Levine Copy Share Image
Even in an intensely mediated world, in a world that offers at least the illusion of radical self-invention and radical freedom of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
My favorite records are, like, The Pretty Things' 'Parachute' and 'S.F. Sorrow' and The Mothers of Invention's 'We're Only in It for… — Ty Segall 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
The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made.… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
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
“Men are creatures of invention and are usually determined not to accept no for an answer.” — Mario Stinger Copy Share Image
If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch. — Kathy Lette Copy Share Image
The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
The hotel industry is a very modern invention - it only really started to become branded in the 1950s. — Joe Gebbia Copy Share Image
Kissing is man's greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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