As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
You're grumpy and broody and secretive all the time. You're no joy to live with, I can tell you that!""I smile sometimes.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I view Witchcraft as a religion that has evolved over the centuries. I do not consider Witchcraft to be a modern invention.… — Raven Grimassi Copy Share Image
It often puzzles me when people think that matters connected with sex ought to be suppressed. Sex itself cannot be suppressed, and… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
America doesn't have poor people, they have temporarily embarrassed millionaires: meaning there are people who are poor for now but that's all… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions:… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
Bearing in mind that "the market" is not an invention of capitalism but that it has existed for thousands of years in… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Information is crucial to our biological substance - our genetic code is information. But before 1950, it was not obvious that inheritance… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I have such a witness in my spirit that God is releasing entrepreneur giftings. He is and you might be receiving one.… — Patricia King 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
At this young age I am already sold on the idea of the dog. One of God's absolutely greatest inventions and one… — Rick Springfield Copy Share Image
It is childish to assume that science began in Greece; the Greek "miracle" was prepared by millenia of work in Egypt, Mesopotamia… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
In my opinion, all previous advances in the various lines of invention will appear totally insignificant when compared with those which the… — Charles Holland Duell Copy Share Image
“I fell in love. It felt exactly like a fall, a head-over-heels tumble into a state of unbearable lightness. The earth tilted… — Philip Yancey 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
Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner, the modern man seems to judge a man's moral standards… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Electric telegraphs, printing, gas, Tobacco, balloons, and steam, Are little events that have come to pass Since the days of the old… — Henry Sambrooke Leigh Copy Share Image
An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the… — Stephen Smale Copy Share Image
I think the history of western feminism is one that is fraught with racism, and I think it's important to acknowledge that… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Some of the most innocuous inventions have proven earth-shattering, with reverberations felt around the planet. The Internet is the poster child for… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems.… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgement of his own works. On that which has cost him much labour he sets a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that of so-called human security, as opposed to territorial security of nation-… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
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