o matter how much research you do, or invention you do, whether it's a character from a novel, a completely invented character… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand. — Townsend Harris Copy Share Image
Is time our invention, or is time a real thing... I realize we're measuring it, but in the cosmic scheme of things,… — Art Bell Copy Share Image
Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation. — George Takei Copy Share Image
That's human nature - we want to completely rewrite history so it can be comfortable. Without getting too profound, I'm pretty sure… — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
... in going over the history of all the inventions for which history could be obtained it became more and more clear… — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe I see in… — Oscar Hammerstein II Copy Share Image
So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries. — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
She had lost herself somewhere along the frontier between her inventions, her stories, her fantasies and her true self. The boundaries had… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention. — Patrick Macnee Copy Share Image
The plane as an object has been a huge effort to make. It is a sculpture, a technological invention, a piece of… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
Without question the AK-47 was a remarkable invention, and not just because it works so well, or because it changed how wars… — C. J. Chivers Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the… — Michael J. Gelb 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
I discovered that bone china was a British invention, which had been developed by a pottery sited next to a slaughterhouse -… — Christien Meindertsma Copy Share Image
