The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes. — Robert Brustein Copy Share Image
Time is a very useful concept in terms of survival. It's extraordinary that we can delineate a day into segments so that… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out. — John Waters Copy Share Image
...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. — John Berger Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an… — Robert Jarvik 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
One of the movements we have developed is to say that, just as intellectual property rights protect the inventions of individuals, common… — Vandana Shiva 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
I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this usefull invention into fashion in England, and I should not fail to… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading. — Barry Commoner 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
It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity. — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest… — Jonathan Swift 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
