I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“Boredom is a lack of crazy. Its a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you're bored, blame yourself.” — Katelyn S. Irons Copy Share Image
A propos of Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
The invention of ethical and political doctrines, which blossomed into our own social sciences, is a product of times when things appeared… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I never thought that my creation, would allow brothers to kill brothers. (after seeing his invention being used in war, The Airplane)… — Alberto Santos-Dumont Copy Share Image
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
I love dark chocolate. I'm also a peanut butter and chocolate fanatic. That's pretty much the greatest invention of the last century. — Tom Lenk Copy Share Image
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty.… — Oscar Wilde 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
We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of… — El Lissitzky 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
One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends. — Caryl Rivers Copy Share Image
“ I had made up my mind to find that for which I was searching even if it required the remainder of… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
My own interest is the responsibility of people to be responsible for their own lives and, with their neighbors, for their public… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is America's favourite holiday, and a brilliant piece of personal as well as patriotic calendrical invention. — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits. — Tomas Luis de Victoria Copy Share Image
I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image