Was there ever a better invention in the cookie world than the Oreo? — Rachel Hollis Copy Share Image
No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention. — John Keats Copy Share Image
Not since Ancient Greece have cities been thought of as the ideal living environment for humans. And that was so long ago… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as… — Hedda Hopper Copy Share Image
Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There is always an underlying spirit of invention at Nike - we love to create something that has never before existed. And… — Mark Parker Copy Share Image
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Go wherever the narrow way passes. If possible, go wherever there seems to be no way and create a way.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Money is a wonderful invention. It lets us save, it lets us specialize, right? I couldn't be a professor if there wasn't… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
They say there is no 'free lunch' in life. But there are free books! I still can't believe I can go to… — Dan Gutman Copy Share Image
If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
And Toronto's own Sergio Trujillo has redone his choreography totally, showing all the comical invention that we know he's capable of. — Richard Ouzounian Copy Share Image
Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time. — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, the things They say, the laws They make, the way the world spins doesn't make any sense at all... Which is… — Joe Kelly Copy Share Image
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the… — John Keats Copy Share Image
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention. — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents, Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising, See, from their chimneys how the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process… — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
