Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I chased every band around the world. Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, you name it. I could just go on… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
The book. The book...think about a book. What a perfect invention. The best and most important ever. — Jann Arden Copy Share Image
I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We need to reduce military budgets; raise living standards; engender respect for learning; support science, scholarship, invention, and industry; promote free inquiry;… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When I did inventions, I always thought only of the invention itself, but the kids would ask for marketing materials. — Ken Hakuta Copy Share Image
Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized… — Plato Copy Share Image
In 1916, when Johnny Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my studio at the south end of the town at five o'clock… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
I have a feeling-as compelling as a religious conviction-that if industry will constantly pass on to the worker and the customer all… — Samuel B. Pettengill Copy Share Image
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Isn't telling about something-using words, English or Japanese-already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter — Aulus Persius Flaccus 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
Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention… — Mark Kelly Copy Share Image
Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process,… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image