The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted… — James Rowland Angell Copy Share Image
Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The invention that most people know me for is the Super Soaker water gun. I knew the gun worked well, and I… — Lonnie Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness -… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value… — Auguste Lumiere Copy Share Image
The invention of the African American, or the Haitian or Jamaican, is a consequence of the transatlantic slave trade. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
[Richard Drew] always encouraged his people to pursue ideas... He said, "If it's a dumb idea, you'll find out. You'll smack into… — Arthur Fry Copy Share Image
I was so surprised because I'm not too sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize, you know, because basically, physics, it… — Shuji Nakamura Copy Share Image
Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and esthetic values as… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The treasury of America lies in those ambitions, those energies, that cannot be restricted to a special favored class. It depends upon… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok’s wonder The… — Vsevolod Meyerhold Copy Share Image
The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts. — John Smith Copy Share Image
“It is clear to me that "religions" are the invention of man, and therefore exhibit all the strengths and weaknesses of human… — Ronald R. Cooke Copy Share Image
The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself. — John Seely Brown Copy Share Image
For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research. — Arthur E. Kennelly Copy Share Image
Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone,… — George Iles Copy Share Image
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
It's true that necessity is the mother of invention. But for those of us without fathers, there is a deeper truth -… — Michael Hainey Copy Share Image
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“The girls put their wits to work, and - necessity being the mother of invention - made whatever they needed.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It… — Joan Wickersham Copy Share Image
Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Do not be tempted to invest in a sample of each golfing invention as soon as it makes its appearance. If you… — Harry Vardon Copy Share Image
We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
A brilliant idea doesn't guarantee a successful invention. Real magic comes from a brilliant idea combined with willpower, tenacity, and a willingness… — Lori Greiner Copy Share Image
My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
In my heart I believe that biology is the beginning and the end of everything. It's the biggest source of ideas, the… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image