Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough. — Julie Newmar Copy Share Image
“Time was the invention of men who would confine the ocean and bottle the wind” — Kassandra Sims Copy Share Image
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“Though his invention worked superbly [...] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it?” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
“Come out with your unique signal and don’t always be compelled to go the common way. That is called innovation.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
By welcoming eager, talented workers, we expand America's potential for growth, and our competitive culture of invention and possibility. — Ron Conway Copy Share Image
A guy who needs to prove himself is exactly who you don't want in charge of creating the most destructive invention human… — Ashley Zukerman Copy Share Image
I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
Our consumer-oriented economy wouldn't survive without economic growth. The whole mechanism depends on invention and insinuation of novelties, arousing new wants, seduction… — Zygmunt Bauman 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
You know, when I was in love, I was always inventing things. A whole array of tricks, illusions and optical effects to… — Mathias Malzieu Copy Share Image
You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're growing up with a very illiterate bunch of children who have somehow been taught that film is fact when, in fact,… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I've always liked the idea of inventing stuff. My father told me, because I was naïve, I would think things could work… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
“[The screw machine] was on the principle of the gauge or sliding lathe now in every workshop throughout the world; the perfection… — David Wilkinson Copy Share Image
The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
“It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The hotel industry is a very modern invention - it only really started to become branded in the 1950s. — Joe Gebbia Copy Share Image
Kissing is man's greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch. — Kathy Lette Copy Share Image
“Men are creatures of invention and are usually determined not to accept no for an answer.” — Mario Stinger Copy Share Image
The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
Every new project I do is a new invention of myself and reinvigorates me as to why I love the industry. — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
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