Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
No bra,” he said against her mouth. “Thank you. I hate those things. Dumbest human invention. Ever. — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees. — Erno Rubik Copy Share Image
The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The gods, the immortals, were the inventors of death and corruption; yet with one or two notable exceptions they have lacked the… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“No one, it appears, took up his offer to commercialize his invention; like other inventions of his, it worked well for him,… — Morton N. Cohen 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
Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Oh my God, Zumba is the greatest invention ever for women. I like to exercise, though I do nothing consistently because I… — Robin Wright Copy Share Image
I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention… — Virginia Woolf 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
We may seem the weakest and most insignificant of all the Realms, but our strength comes in other ways. We have what… — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But… — Abraham Robinson Copy Share Image
One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching… — Dorothy L. Sayers 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
Writing fiction lets you be a little more emotional and unguarded, a little freer. Writing fictional characters is also really different from… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs,… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that… — Elihu Thomson Copy Share Image
...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education, — Eduardo J. Padron Copy Share Image
Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented. — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution. — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
